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title: «big animals are best, they win everything» What problem does a gian… — Mammal giants of the past: Paracerathe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «big animals are best, they win everything» What problem does a giant body bring? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 7 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

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«big animals are best, they win everything» What problem does a giant body bring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big animals, animals · **What happens:** be, win, bring · **To what, where:** everything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus:t7:1
# text = «big animals are best, they win everything» What problem does a giant body bring?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	win	win	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
9	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	_
12	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | big animals |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** *in a quote* | present | animals *= animal* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It cannot keep warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus:t7:o1:1
# text = It cannot keep warm
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | can | It |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Every predator can catch it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus:t7:o2:1
# text = Every predator can catch it
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	predator	predator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | every predator | it |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It needs huge amounts of food every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus:t7:o3:1
# text = It needs huge amounts of food every day
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | It | huge amounts of food |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot amount=Theme |
| 2 | **amount** |  |  | food |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It cannot eat twigs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus:t7:o4:1
# text = It cannot eat twigs
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | can | It | twigs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=Patient |

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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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