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title: Ascertain the purpose for which beehives are suspended upon fences b… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the purpose for which beehives are suspended upon fences by farmers in Kenya. Exam question 3 of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 3 · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

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Ascertain the purpose for which beehives are suspended upon fences by farmers in Kenya.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, farmers · **What happens:** ascertain, suspend · **To what, where:** purpose, beehives, fences

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the purpose for which beehives are suspended upon fences by farmers in Kenya.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	beehives	beehive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	farmers	farmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the purpose |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic |
| 2 | **suspend** | present · passive | farmers in Kenya | beehives |  | fences |  | for the purpose | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme upon fence=Destination |

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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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The capture of elephants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:e3:o1:1
# text = The capture of elephants
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** |  |  | elephants |  |  |  |  | nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The warming of the bees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:e3:o2:1
# text = The warming of the bees
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** |  | the bees |  |  |  |  |  | nom warming «process intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The provision of honey to elephants in exchange for their departure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:e3:o3:1
# text = The provision of honey to elephants in exchange for their departure
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** |  | honey |  |  |  |  | to elephants in exchange for elephants's departure | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |
| 2 | **depart** |  | elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The deterrence of elephants from the consumption of crops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:e3:o4:1
# text = The deterrence of elephants from the consumption of crops
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deterrence	deterrence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	consumption	consumption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** |  |  | crops |  |  |  |  | nom consumption «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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