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title: «loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right? — Record-breakers: the loudest and the l… · tree and pragmatics
description: «loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

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«loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** loudest animal, lion · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t5:1
# text = «loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | loudest animal | the lion |  |  |  | obviously *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the lion |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Right, nothing is louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t5:o1:1
# text = Right, nothing is louder
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fish make no sound at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t5:o2:1
# text = Fish make no sound at all
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Fish | no sound |  | all |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The sperm whale makes the loudest sound of any animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t5:o3:1
# text = The sperm whale makes the loudest sound of any animal
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sperm	sperm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the sperm whale | the loudest sound of any animal |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The tiny house mouse is the loudest, squeaking in the walls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t5:o4:1
# text = The tiny house mouse is the loudest, squeaking in the walls
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	squeaking	squeak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tiny house mouse |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **squeak** | gerund | the tiny house mouse *not said here* |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location |

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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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