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title: A huge armadillo shell is found in Argentina. Who might have used it… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… · tree and pragmatics
description: A huge armadillo shell is found in Argentina. Who might have used it as a shelter? Test 9 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
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# Test 9 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

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A huge armadillo shell is found in Argentina. Who might have used it as a shelter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** find, use · **To what, where:** huge armadillo shell, Argentina, shell

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A huge armadillo shell is found in Argentina.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:1
# text = A huge armadillo shell is found in Argentina.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Argentina	Argentina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | a huge armadillo shell |  | Argentina |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Who might have used it as a shelter?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:2
# text = Who might have used it as a shelter?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | might · perfect · passive |  | shell |  |  |  | as a shelter | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The very last dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:o1:1
# text = The very last dinosaurs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nobody could ever have

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobody could ever have
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | could | Nobody |  |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Early people in South America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:o3:1
# text = Early people in South America
1	Early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sabre-toothed cats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t9:o4:1
# text = Sabre-toothed cats
1	Sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	toothed	tooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tooth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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