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description: A cartoon elephant leaps onto a chair, screaming at a mouse. What would a real elephant probably do? Test 1 · ★★ 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
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

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A cartoon elephant leaps onto a chair, screaming at a mouse. What would a real elephant probably do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon elephant, real elephant · **What happens:** leap, scream, do · **To what, where:** chair

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» 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/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon elephant leaps onto a chair, screaming at a mouse.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:1
# text = A cartoon elephant leaps onto a chair, screaming at a mouse.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | present | a cartoon elephant |  |  | a chair |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto chair=Trajectory |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | a cartoon elephant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a mouse | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at mouse=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What would a real elephant probably do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:2
# text = What would a real elephant probably do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | a real elephant |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Faint at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:o1:1
# text = Faint at once
1	Faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Climb a tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:o2:1
# text = Climb a tree
1	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | imperative | you *not said here* | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Run for miles across the plain, trumpeting in terror and never come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:o3:1
# text = Run for miles across the plain, trumpeting in terror and never come back
1	Run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the plain |  | for miles | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across plain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **trumpet** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | terror |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in terror=Location |
| 3 | **not** **come back** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Maybe step around it or be briefly startled, as by anything sudden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t1:o4:1
# text = Maybe step around it or be briefly startled, as by anything sudden
1	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
7	briefly	briefly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	startled	startle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **startle** | infinitive · passive |  | step around it |  |  |  | briefly *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer anything=Result |

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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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