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title: In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw. What does a real elephant do? Test 7 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 7 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

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In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw. What does a real elephant do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elephant · **What happens:** drink, do · **To what, where:** whole lake, cartoon, real elephant do

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This is test 7 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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/41-counting-animals/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:1
# text = In a cartoon, an elephant drinks a whole lake through its trunk like a straw.
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	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | a elephant | a whole lake |  | a cartoon |  | through elephant's trunk; like a straw | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient |

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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 does a real elephant do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:2
# text = What does a real elephant do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	do	do	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  | a real elephant do |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Never drinks at all, it gets all its water from grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:o1:1
# text = Never drinks at all, it gets all its water from grass
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drink** | present |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | it | its water |  | grass |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from grass=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drinks through the trunk exactly like a straw, only slower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:o2:1
# text = Drinks through the trunk exactly like a straw, only slower
1	Drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lowers its head and drinks the water up with its tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:o3:1
# text = Lowers its head and drinks the water up with its tusks
1	Lowers	lower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drinks	drink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink up** | present | Lowers and its head | the water |  |  |  | with water's tusks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Sucks a few litres into its trunk and squirts it into its mouth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t7:o4:1
# text = Sucks a few litres into its trunk and squirts it into its mouth
1	Sucks	suck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	litres	litre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	squirts	squirt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suck** | present |  | a few litres |  | its trunk |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent litre=Source |
| 2 | **squirt** | present |  | trunk |  | trunk's mouth |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into mouth=Destination |

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