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title: Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant? — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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 1 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

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Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dumbo · **What happens:** fly

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t1:1
# text = Dumbo flies with his ears innit. could a real elephant?
1	Dumbo	Dumbo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | Dumbo |  |  |  |  | with Dumbo's ears innit | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, but its ears do work as coolers and warning signals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t1:o1:1
# text = No, but its ears do work as coolers and warning signals
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	coolers	cooler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	warning	warning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | its ears | work |  |  |  | as coolers and warning signals | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, real elephants have no ears at all, only two small holes in the head

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t1:o2:1
# text = No, real elephants have no ears at all, only two small holes in the head
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | real elephants | no ears |  | all |  | two small holes in the head *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if the ears are big enough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, if the ears are big enough
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the ears |  |  |  |  | big, enough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but only baby elephants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only baby elephants
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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