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title: A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalan… — Wolves and dogs · tree and pragmatics
description: A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche. Which sense does it use most? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Wolves and dogs» 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 10 · ★ · Wolves and dogs

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A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche. Which sense does it use most?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dog, sense · **What happens:** train, find, bury, use · **To what, where:** dog, people, snow, most

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 24 «Wolves and dogs» 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/24-wolves-and-dogs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:1
# text = A dog has been trained to find people buried in snow after an avalanche.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **train** | present · perfect · passive |  | a dog |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | a dog *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic |
| 3 | **bury** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  | snow | after a avalanche |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in snow=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which sense does it use most?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:2
# text = Which sense does it use most?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present · do-support | which sense | most |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:o1:1
# text = Smell
1	Smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Hearing only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:o2:1
# text = Hearing only
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:o3:1
# text = Sight
1	Sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:24-wolves-and-dogs:t10:o4:1
# text = Taste
1	Taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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