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# Test 1 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

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«Big Bad Wolf blew the house down, wolves r evil» What is the real picture?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Big Bad Wolf · **What happens:** blow down, be · **To what, where:** house, real picture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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/240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t1:1
# text = «Big Bad Wolf blew the house down, wolves r evil» What is the real picture?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Bad	Bad	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	r	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow down** *in a quote* | past | Big Bad Wolf | the house |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | the real picture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Wolves hunt children for fun, just like in the fairy tales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t1:o1:1
# text = Wolves hunt children for fun, just like in the fairy tales
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Wolves | children |  |  |  | for fun; like the fairy tales | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Location for fun=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wolves often blow houses down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t1:o2:1
# text = Wolves often blow houses down
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow down** | present | Wolves | houses |  |  |  | down, often *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t1:o3:1
# text = Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | present | Real wolves | people |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 2 | **avoid** | present | Real wolves *not said here* | people |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wolves live in houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t1:o4:1
# text = Wolves live in houses
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Wolves |  |  | houses |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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