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description: «happy feet's nonsense, penguins don't use their voices» What is right? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 r
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

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«happy feet's nonsense, penguins don't use their voices» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** penguins · **What happens:** not use, be · **To what, where:** voices

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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/7-antarctica/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t2:1
# text = «happy feet's nonsense, penguins don't use their voices» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **use** *in a quote* | present · do-support | penguins | penguins's voices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 2 | **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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Penguins find their mates by smell only, as all the penguins look the same

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t2:o1:1
# text = Penguins find their mates by smell only, as all the penguins look the same
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | Penguins | Penguins's mates |  |  |  | by smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
| 2 | **look** | present | all penguins | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Penguins never find each other again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t2:o2:1
# text = Penguins never find each other again
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | present | Penguins | each |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Penguins have no voice at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t2:o3:1
# text = Penguins have no voice at all
1	Penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Emperor penguins really do find their mates and chicks by their calls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t2:o4:1
# text = Emperor penguins really do find their mates and chicks by their calls
1	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · do-support | Emperor penguins | penguins's mates and chicks |  |  |  | by penguins's calls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
| 2 | **call** |  | penguins *= penguin* |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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