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title: What would you expect if poachers kill mostly elephants with big tus… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would you expect if poachers kill mostly elephants with big tusks for many years? Test 5 · ★ 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 r
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# Test 5 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory

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What would you expect if poachers kill mostly elephants with big tusks for many years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, poachers · **What happens:** expect, kill · **To what, where:** elephants

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t5:1
# text = What would you expect if poachers kill mostly elephants with big tusks for many years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	poachers	poacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | poachers | elephants |  |  | year | with big tusks | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient with tusk=Instrument |

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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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Elephants would start to grow new tusks on their legs and backs instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t5:o1:1
# text = Elephants would start to grow new tusks on their legs and backs instead
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | Elephants |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | to-infinitive | Elephants *not said here* | new tusks |  | Elephants's legs and backs |  | instead *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tusk=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tusks would grow twice as fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t5:o2:1
# text = Tusks would grow twice as fast
1	Tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Tusks |  |  |  |  | fast, twice *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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More elephants born without tusks, because tuskless ones survived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t5:o3:1
# text = More elephants born without tusks, because tuskless ones survived
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	tuskless	tuskless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | More elephants and tuskless ones *not said here* |  |  |  | without tusks | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **survive** | past | More elephants and tuskless ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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