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title: A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zo… — Dolphins, porpoises and seals · tree and pragmatics
description: A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo. What is it most likely? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 27 «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 9 · ★ · Dolphins, porpoises and seals

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A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo. What is it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sea animal · **What happens:** have, walk, be · **To what, where:** small ear flaps, flippers, animal

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 27 «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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/27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:1
# text = A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	flaps	flap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a sea animal | small ear flaps |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a sea animal *not said here* |  |  | animal's flippers |  | at the zoo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flipper=Trajectory |

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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 is it most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:2
# text = What is it most likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A young dolphin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:o1:1
# text = A young dolphin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A sea lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:o2:1
# text = A sea lion
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A harbour seal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:o3:1
# text = A harbour seal
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seal	seal	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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A harbour porpoise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:27-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals:t9:o4:1
# text = A harbour porpoise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	porpoise	porpoise	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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