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title: A lion eats a zebra that ate grass. Where did the lion's energy firs… — Food chains and food webs · tree and pragmatics
description: A lion eats a zebra that ate grass. Where did the lion's energy first come from? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

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A lion eats a zebra that ate grass. Where did the lion's energy first come from?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** lion, zebra, energy · **What happens:** eat, be, come · **To what, where:** zebra, grass

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» of the world 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/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A lion eats a zebra that ate grass.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:1
# text = A lion eats a zebra that ate grass.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | a lion | a zebra |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent zebra=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | past | a zebra | grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

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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:* Where did the lion's energy first come from?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:2
# text = Where did the lion's energy first come from?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lion's energy |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | the lion's energy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:o1:1
# text = The Sun
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The lion's own body

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:o2:1
# text = The lion's own body
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	body	body	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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The zebra's muscles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:o3:1
# text = The zebra's muscles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The water hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t8:o4:1
# text = The water hole
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hole	hole	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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