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title: «mammoth bone houses?? no way» Is that real? — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… · tree and pragmatics
description: «mammoth bone houses?? no way» Is that real? Test 8 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 8 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

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«mammoth bone houses?? no way» Is that real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mammoth bone houses · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t8:1
# text = «mammoth bone houses?? no way» Is that real?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | mammoth bone houses and no way |  |  |  |  | real *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, it is only in cartoons and films, never in real life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t8:o1:1
# text = No, it is only in cartoons and films, never in real life
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  | cartoons and films and real life |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Yes, Ice Age people in Ukraine built huts from mammoth bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t8:o2:1
# text = Yes, Ice Age people in Ukraine built huts from mammoth bones
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Age people in Ukraine | huts |  | mammoth bones |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent hut=Product from bone=Material |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, but they were really dinosaur bones, not mammoth bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t8:o3:1
# text = Yes, but they were really dinosaur bones, not mammoth bones
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | they | dinosaur bones and mammoth bones |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, people at that time lived only in trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t8:o4:1
# text = No, people at that time lived only in trees
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | people at that time |  |  | trees |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |

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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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