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# Test 18 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

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my mate says sharks hunt people at every beach and like 1000 kids get eaten a year, true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mate, sharks · **What happens:** say, hunt, eat · **To what, where:** people, beach · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/#t18).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t18:1
# text = my mate says sharks hunt people at every beach and like 1000 kids get eaten a year, true?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | sharks | people |  | every beach |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Theme at beach=Location |
| 3 | **eat** | present · passive | sharks *not said here* |  |  |  | year | like 1000 kids | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, but only at beaches in the summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t18:o1:1
# text = True, but only at beaches in the summer
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, sharks like eating people much more than eating fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t18:o2:1
# text = True, sharks like eating people much more than eating fish
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | True sharks *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hugely exaggerated; sharks rarely attack people at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t18:o3:1
# text = Hugely exaggerated; sharks rarely attack people at all
1	Hugely	hugely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exaggerate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | hugely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attack** | present | exaggerated sharks | people |  | all |  | rarely *property* | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
True, so nobody should ever swim in the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t18:o4:1
# text = True, so nobody should ever swim in the sea
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | should | nobody |  |  | the sea | ever |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory |

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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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