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description: A woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya. Whose voice makes them nervous? Test 6 · ★★ 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
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

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A woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya. Whose voice makes them nervous?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** group, elephants, voice · **What happens:** hunt, talk, make · **To what, where:** herd, elephants

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:1
# text = A woman and a man from a group that sometimes hunts elephants talk near a herd in Kenya.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
14	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Kenya	Kenya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | a group |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **talk** | present | elephants |  |  | a herd in Kenya |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Whose voice makes them nervous?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:2
# text = Whose voice makes them nervous?
1	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | voice | elephants *= elephant* |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The man's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:o1:1
# text = The man's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The woman's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:o2:1
# text = The woman's
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Both equally

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:o3:1
# text = Both equally
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc:preconj	_	_
2	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neither of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t6:o4:1
# text = Neither of them
1	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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