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title: An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you. W… — The elephant house: herds, feet, food… · tree and pragmatics
description: An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you. Which kind is it most likely? Test 11 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 11 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

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An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you. Which kind is it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elephant · **What happens:** round, be · **To what, where:** front, elephant

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This is test 11 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:1
# text = An elephant with small ears and a rounded back is in front of you.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	rounded	round	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | a elephant with small ears and a rounded back |  |  | front |  | of you | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which kind is it most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:2
# text = Which kind is it most likely?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
5	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A small woolly mammoth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:o1:1
# text = A small woolly mammoth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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An African savanna elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:o2:1
# text = An African savanna elephant
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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An African forest elephant with giant ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:o3:1
# text = An African forest elephant with giant ears
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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An Asian elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t11:o4:1
# text = An Asian elephant
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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