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title: A cuttlefish lets more gas into its cuttlebone. Which way will it go? — Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish · tree and pragmatics
description: A cuttlefish lets more gas into its cuttlebone. Which way will it go? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish

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A cuttlefish lets more gas into its cuttlebone. Which way will it go?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cuttlefish, way · **What happens:** let, go · **To what, where:** more gas, cuttlebone

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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/39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cuttlefish lets more gas into its cuttlebone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:1
# text = A cuttlefish lets more gas into its cuttlebone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cuttlefish	cuttlefish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	cuttlebone	cuttlebone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | a cuttlefish | more gas |  | cuttlefish's cuttlebone |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gas=Theme |

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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 way will it go?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:2
# text = Which way will it go?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | future | which way |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nowhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:o1:1
# text = Nowhere
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:o2:1
# text = Up
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:o3:1
# text = Backwards
1	Backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:39-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish:t10:o4:1
# text = Down
1	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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