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title: «rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right? — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics
description: «rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 4 · ★ · Endangered animals and extinction

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«rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rhino horn, gran · **What happens:** cure, say, be · **To what, where:** fevers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t4:1
# text = «rhino horn cures fevers, my mate's gran says» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fevers	fever	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** *in a quote* | present | rhino horn | fevers |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer fever=Source |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my mate's gran |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, rhino horn is poisonous to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t4:o1:1
# text = No, rhino horn is poisonous to eat
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | rhino horn |  |  |  |  | poisonous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | rhino horn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Rhino horn is keratin like fingernails and has no healing power

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t4:o2:1
# text = Rhino horn is keratin like fingernails and has no healing power
1	Rhino	Rhino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	keratin	keratin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | horn keratin |  |  |  | like fingernails | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | horn keratin | no healing power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, rhino horn cures every illness

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t4:o3:1
# text = Yes, rhino horn cures every illness
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present | rhino horn | every illness |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, but only if it is ground into powder and mixed with hot water

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t4:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only if it is ground into powder and mixed with hot water
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mixed	mix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | ground |  | powder |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mix** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with hot water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-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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