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# Exam question 3 · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the mortality attributable to venomous animals in Australia?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** mortality

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:e3:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the mortality attributable to venomous animals in Australia?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mortality	mortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	attributable	attributable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | the mortality |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately, attributable *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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Deaths exceed those from all other causes combined

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:e3:o1:1
# text = Deaths exceed those from all other causes combined
1	Deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	exceed	exceed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	causes	cause	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exceed** | present | Deaths | those |  | all other causes |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |
| 2 | **combine** | participle |  | all other causes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No venomous animal is to be found on the continent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:e3:o2:1
# text = No venomous animal is to be found on the continent
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | no venomous animal |  | the continent |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Several hundred deaths occur each day throughout the whole of the continent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:e3:o3:1
# text = Several hundred deaths occur each day throughout the whole of the continent
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | Several hundred deaths |  |  | the whole | day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme throughout whole=Location |

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

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Notwithstanding their great number, very few deaths occur in a typical year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:e3:o4:1
# text = Notwithstanding their great number, very few deaths occur in a typical year
1	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	typical	typical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund | few deaths *not said here* | their great number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **occur** | present | few deaths |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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