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# Test 7 · ★★ · The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and froz…

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In a cartoon a woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed cat are best friends in the ice age. If a company made a «mammoth» today, what would it really be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** woolly mammoth, company · **What happens:** tooth, be, make · **To what, where:** best friends, cartoon, mammoth, today

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed cat are best friends in the ice age.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:1
# text = In a cartoon a woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed cat are best friends in the ice age.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	toothed	tooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tooth** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a woolly mammoth and a toothed cat | best friends |  | a cartoon | in the ice age |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* If a company made a «mammoth» today, what would it really be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:2
# text = If a company made a «mammoth» today, what would it really be?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | a company | a mammoth |  |  | today |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mammoth=Product |
| 2 | **be** | would | company | today |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A big hairy cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:o1:1
# text = A big hairy cow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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An elephant with some mammoth genes, a new animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:o2:1
# text = An elephant with some mammoth genes, a new animal
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	genes	gene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The same mammoth from the cartoon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:o3:1
# text = The same mammoth from the cartoon
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A real sabre-toothed cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos:t7:o4:1
# text = A real sabre-toothed cat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	sabre	sabre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	toothed	tooth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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