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title: Which is true about the elephant's sense of smell? — Elephants: the trunk and everything it… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about the elephant's sense of smell? Test 8 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · Elephants: the trunk and everything it does

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Which is true about the elephant's sense of smell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elephant · **What happens:** be, sense · **To what, where:** smell

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This is test 8 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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/21-elephants-the-trunk/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t8:1
# text = Which is true about the elephant's sense of smell?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about the elephant's sense of smell; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sense** |  | the elephant | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Elephants have more smell genes than dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t8:o1:1
# text = Elephants have more smell genes than dogs
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
4	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	genes	gene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Elephants | more smell genes |  |  |  | than dogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gene=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dogs can smell water further away than any elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t8:o2:1
# text = Dogs can smell water further away than any elephant
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	further	further	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Dogs | water |  |  |  | away *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Elephants can hardly smell anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t8:o3:1
# text = Elephants can hardly smell anything
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Elephants | anything |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Elephants smell only with their mouths

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t8:o4:1
# text = Elephants smell only with their mouths
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smell	smell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | Elephants |  |  |  |  | with Elephants's mouths | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=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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