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title: Ascertain the faculty for which the male lyrebird is chiefly renowned. — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the faculty for which the male lyrebird is chiefly renowned. Exam question 4 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 4 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

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Ascertain the faculty for which the male lyrebird is chiefly renowned.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, male lyrebird · **What happens:** ascertain, be · **To what, where:** faculty

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the faculty for which the male lyrebird is chiefly renowned.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	faculty	faculty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lyrebird	lyrebird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the faculty |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faculty=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | the male lyrebird |  |  |  |  | for the faculty; chiefly, renowned *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 {#o1}

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Gliding between trees by means of membranes of skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e4:o1:1
# text = Gliding between trees by means of membranes of skin
1	Gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	membranes	membrane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | gerund |  |  |  | trees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between tree=Trajectory |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Gliding |  |  |  |  | of membranes of skin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The construction of bowers decorated with blue objects

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e4:o2:1
# text = The construction of bowers decorated with blue objects
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bowers	bower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	objects	object	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **decorate** | participle |  | bowers *not said here* |  |  |  | with blue objects | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with object=Theme |
| 2 | **construct** |  |  | bowers |  |  |  |  | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Breaking through sea ice with its head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e4:o3:1
# text = Breaking through sea ice with its head
1	Breaking	break	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | gerund |  |  |  | sea ice |  | with ice's head | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through ice=Location |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The imitation of the calls of other birds and of human sounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e4:o4:1
# text = The imitation of the calls of other birds and of human sounds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	imitation	imitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imitate** |  |  | the calls of other birds and human sounds |  |  |  |  | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **call** |  |  | other birds and human sounds |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=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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