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title: «saw a raccoon in a German forest, did it escape from a zoo or what» — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics
description: «saw a raccoon in a German forest, did it escape from a zoo or what» Test 9 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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 9 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

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«saw a raccoon in a German forest, did it escape from a zoo or what»

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** raccoon · **What happens:** see, escape · **To what, where:** raccoon, German forest, zoo · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t9:1
# text = «saw a raccoon in a German forest, did it escape from a zoo or what»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	raccoon	raccoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past |  | a raccoon |  | a German forest |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** *in a quote* | past · do-support | raccoon |  |  | a zoo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from zoo=Initial\_Location |

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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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Raccoons brought to Europe escaped and now live wild there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t9:o1:1
# text = Raccoons brought to Europe escaped and now live wild there
1	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | Raccoons |  | Europe |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to europe=Destination |
| 2 | **escape** | past | Raccoons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **live** | present | Raccoons *not said here* | wild |  | there | now |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wild=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It must have been a badger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t9:o2:1
# text = It must have been a badger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | must · perfect | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Raccoons have always lived in Germany

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t9:o3:1
# text = Raccoons have always lived in Germany
1	Raccoons	raccoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · perfect | Raccoons |  |  | Germany |  | always *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in germany=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It must have escaped from a zoo that very same day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t9:o4:1
# text = It must have escaped from a zoo that very same day
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	escaped	escape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | must · perfect · passive |  | It |  | a zoo |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **day** |  | a zoo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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