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description: A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull. Which will it most likely charge? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 295 «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostr…

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A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull. Which will it most likely charge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** scientist · **What happens:** wave, flap, charge · **To what, where:** red cape

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 295 «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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/295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:1
# text = A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waves	wave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | present | a scientist | a red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient |
| 2 | **flap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Which will it most likely charge?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:2
# text = Which will it most likely charge?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	charge	charge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | future | scientist |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location which=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Both at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:o1:1
# text = Both at once
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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The flapping blue towel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:o2:1
# text = The flapping blue towel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	towel	towel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The still red cape

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:o3:1
# text = The still red cape
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cape	cape	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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Neither, bulls only charge people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:295-animal-myths-put-right-elephants-and-mice-lemmings-ostriches-and-goldfish:t8:o4:1
# text = Neither, bulls only charge people
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | present | bulls | people |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location people=Theme |

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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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