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title: An animal with a black tip on its tail is running along a stone wall… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: An animal with a black tip on its tail is running along a stone wall in Yorkshire. What is it most likely? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, 
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# Test 2 · ★★ · The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat,…

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An animal with a black tip on its tail is running along a stone wall in Yorkshire. What is it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** run, be · **To what, where:** stone wall, animal

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An animal with a black tip on its tail is running along a stone wall in Yorkshire.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:1
# text = An animal with a black tip on its tail is running along a stone wall in Yorkshire.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Yorkshire	Yorkshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present · progressive | a animal with a black tip on animal's tail |  |  | a stone wall in Yorkshire |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Trajectory |

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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:* What is it most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:2
# text = What is it most likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A stoat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:o1:1
# text = A stoat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stoat	stoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A weasel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:o2:1
# text = A weasel
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A water vole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:o3:1
# text = A water vole
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	vole	vole	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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A ferret

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t2:o4:1
# text = A ferret
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ferret	ferret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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