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# Test 1 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

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«raccoons got into the green bin AGAIN, rubbish everywhere, how do they even open it»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** raccoons · **What happens:** get, open · **To what, where:** rubbish, green bin

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t1:1
# text = «raccoons got into the green bin AGAIN, rubbish everywhere, how do they even open it»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | raccoons | rubbish |  | the green bin | again | everywhere *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into bin=Destination |
| 2 | **open** *in a quote* | present · do-support | raccoons *= raccoon* | rubbish |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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 {#o1}

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They wait for the wind to open it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t1:o1:1
# text = They wait for the wind to open it
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | They |  |  |  |  | for the wind | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | wind |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Their clever five-fingered paws can lift the lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t1:o2:1
# text = Their clever five-fingered paws can lift the lid
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	fingered	finger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finger** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lift** | can | Their clever fingered paws | the lid |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They push it over and the lid melts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t1:o3:1
# text = They push it over and the lid melts
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	melts	melt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push over** | present | They | it |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** | present | the lid |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They ring the doorbell to scare people off first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t1:o4:1
# text = They ring the doorbell to scare people off first
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ring	ring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	doorbell	doorbell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	scare	scare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | present | They | the doorbell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doorbell=Theme |
| 2 | **scare off** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | people |  |  |  | first *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer |

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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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