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title: Why could scientists find milk inside baby Lyuba after thousands of… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why could scientists find milk inside baby Lyuba after thousands of years? Test 7 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 7 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

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Why could scientists find milk inside baby Lyuba after thousands of years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** scientists · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** milk, baby

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This is test 7 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t7:1
# text = Why could scientists find milk inside baby Lyuba after thousands of years?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	Lyuba	Lyuba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | scientists | milk |  | baby | after thousands of years |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Permafrost froze her quickly and kept her like a freezer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t7:o1:1
# text = Permafrost froze her quickly and kept her like a freezer
1	Permafrost	Permafrost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	froze	freeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	freezer	freezer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past | Permafrost | her *= she* |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Permafrost *not said here* | Permafrost |  |  |  | like a freezer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Milk never goes bad, however long it is kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t7:o2:1
# text = Milk never goes bad, however long it is kept
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present | Milk |  |  |  |  | bad, long *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Milk |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Someone found her and fed her milk later on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t7:o3:1
# text = Someone found her and fed her milk later on
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Someone | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **feed** | past | Someone *not said here* | her milk |  |  |  | late *property* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She was found inside an old fridge in a hut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t7:o4:1
# text = She was found inside an old fridge in a hut
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | She |  | a old fridge |  | in a hut | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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