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title: «girl reindeer don't have antlers, only santa's boys do» What is rig… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be… · tree and pragmatics
description: «girl reindeer don't have antlers, only santa's boys do» What is right? Test 2 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 2 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

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«girl reindeer don't have antlers, only santa's boys do» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl reindeer, boys · **What happens:** not have, do, be · **To what, where:** antlers

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This is test 2 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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/6-the-arctic/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t2:1
# text = «girl reindeer don't have antlers, only santa's boys do» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	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	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | present · do-support | girl reindeer | antlers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | santa's boys |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Right: only males have antlers, and they use them to pull the sleigh

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t2:o1:1
# text = Right: only males have antlers, and they use them to pull the sleigh
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | males | antlers |  |  |  | right *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient |
| 2 | **use** | present | males *= male* | antlers *= antler* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **pull** | to-infinitive | males *= male* *not said here* | the sleigh |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleigh=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Right: no reindeer has antlers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t2:o2:1
# text = Right: no reindeer has antlers
1	Right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no reindeer | antlers |  |  |  | right *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=Patient |

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

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Wrong: in reindeer both males and females usually grow antlers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t2:o3:1
# text = Wrong: in reindeer both males and females usually grow antlers
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc:preconj	_	_
6	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Wrong reindeer both males and females | antlers |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location antler=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Wrong: only females have antlers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t2:o4:1
# text = Wrong: only females have antlers
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Wrong females | antlers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=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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