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title: «pigs are dumb, just mud and food» What is right? — Surprising brains: tool-using fish, co… · tree and pragmatics
description: «pigs are dumb, just mud and food» What is right? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

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«pigs are dumb, just mud and food» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pigs · **What happens:** be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:t7:1
# text = «pigs are dumb, just mud and food» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | pigs |  |  |  |  | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Pigs used a mirror to find food and played a joystick game

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:t7:o1:1
# text = Pigs used a mirror to find food and played a joystick game
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	joystick	joystick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past | Pigs | a mirror |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Pigs *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | past | Pigs *not said here* | a joystick game |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pigs can read books and simple signs on the farm gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:t7:o2:1
# text = Pigs can read books and simple signs on the farm gate
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | can | Pigs | books and simple signs |  | the farm gate |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Pigs cannot learn anything at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:t7:o3:1
# text = Pigs cannot learn anything at all
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **learn** | can | Pigs | anything |  | all |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pigs are blind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs:t7:o4:1
# text = Pigs are blind
1	Pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Pigs |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | 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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