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# Test 10 · ★ · The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«guinea pig + capybara both rodents, so same size near enough» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guinea pig · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 42 «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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/42-the-capybara/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:42-the-capybara:t10:1
# text = «guinea pig + capybara both rodents, so same size near enough» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
4	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	5	cc	_	_
5	capybara	capybara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	near	near	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | guinea pig + capybara and both rodents and same size |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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No, the guinea pig is bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:42-the-capybara:t10:o1:1
# text = No, the guinea pig is bigger
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the guinea pig |  |  |  |  | big *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, they weigh about the same, give or take a bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:42-the-capybara:t10:o2:1
# text = Yes, they weigh about the same, give or take a bit
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	weigh	weigh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weigh** | present | they |  |  |  |  | about the same | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | infinitive | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | infinitive | they *not said here* | a bit |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |

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

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No, a capybara can be about 50 times heavier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:42-the-capybara:t10:o3:1
# text = No, a capybara can be about 50 times heavier
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	capybara	capybara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can |  |  |  |  | time | heavy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, but the capybara has much longer legs, that's all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:42-the-capybara:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, but the capybara has much longer legs, that's all
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	capybara	capybara	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the capybara | legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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