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title: «a condor never touched a bullet, so how'd it get poisoned» What is… — Conservation: how people help animals… · tree and pragmatics
description: «a condor never touched a bullet, so how'd it get poisoned» What is right? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

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«a condor never touched a bullet, so how'd it get poisoned» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condor · **What happens:** not touch, poison, be · **To what, where:** bullet, condor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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/78-conservation-animals-come-back/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t4:1
# text = «a condor never touched a bullet, so how'd it get poisoned» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	condor	condor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** *in a quote* | past | a condor | a bullet |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bullet=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **poison** *in a quote* | would · passive |  | condor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 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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Condors cannot be poisoned at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t4:o1:1
# text = Condors cannot be poisoned at all
1	Condors	condor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **poison** | can · passive |  | Condors |  | all |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It flew through the gun smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t4:o2:1
# text = It flew through the gun smoke
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | It |  |  | the gun smoke |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through smoke=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It drank from a river near a shooting range

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t4:o3:1
# text = It drank from a river near a shooting range
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | past | It |  |  | a river |  | near a shooting range | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from river=Source |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It ate carcasses with lead bullets inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t4:o4:1
# text = It ate carcasses with lead bullets inside
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | It | carcasses |  |  |  | with lead bullets; inside *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=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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