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title: In Finding Nemo, Crush the sea turtle surfs a big ocean current. Whi… — Reef giants and wanderers: whale shark… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Finding Nemo, Crush the sea turtle surfs a big ocean current. Which part is true? Test 1 of lesson 174 «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 1 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

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In Finding Nemo, Crush the sea turtle surfs a big ocean current. Which part is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, part · **What happens:** crush, be · **To what, where:** sea turtle surfs, Finding

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This is test 1 of lesson 174 «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In Finding Nemo, Crush the sea turtle surfs a big ocean current.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:1
# text = In Finding Nemo, Crush the sea turtle surfs a big ocean current.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Finding	Finding	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Nemo	Nemo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Crush	crush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	surfs	surf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crush** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sea turtle surfs  a big ocean current |  | Finding |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surf=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* Which part is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:2
# text = Which part is true?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which part |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Real turtles can only swim in rivers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:o1:1
# text = Real turtles can only swim in rivers
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | can | Real turtles |  |  | rivers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Real turtles never leave one small beach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:o2:1
# text = Real turtles never leave one small beach
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **leave** | present | Real turtles | one small beach |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beach=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Real turtles talk like surfers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:o3:1
# text = Real turtles talk like surfers
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	surfers	surfer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | present | Real turtles |  |  |  |  | like surfers | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Real sea turtles ride ocean currents to travel thousands of kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles:t1:o4:1
# text = Real sea turtles ride ocean currents to travel thousands of kilometres
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | Real sea turtles | ocean currents |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent current=Theme |
| 2 | **travel** | to-infinitive | Real sea turtles *not said here* | thousands of kilometres |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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