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title: In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breath… — More record-breakers and oddballs: slo… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only. What is wrong? Test 8 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of 
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# Test 8 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

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In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** electric eel · **What happens:** live, breathe, be · **To what, where:** game

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This is test 8 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:1
# text = In a game, the electric eel lives in clear deep sea water and breathes with gills only.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | the electric eel |  |  | a game |  | in clear deep sea water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location |
| 2 | **breathe** | present | the electric eel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with gills | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It lives in the sea but breathes through a hole in its tail like a whale

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:o1:1
# text = It lives in the sea but breathes through a hole in its tail like a whale
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	breathes	breathe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	in	in	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	tail	tail	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	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | It |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
| 2 | **breathe** | present |  |  |  | a hole |  | in hole's tail; like a whale | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, that is correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing, that is correct
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It lives in the desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:o3:1
# text = It lives in the desert
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | It |  |  | the desert |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It lives in muddy rivers and must breathe air at the surface

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t8:o4:1
# text = It lives in muddy rivers and must breathe air at the surface
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | It |  |  | muddy rivers |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
| 2 | **breathe** | must |  | air |  | the surface |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |

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