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title: Identify the organism which is acknowledged to be the largest animal… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colos… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the organism which is acknowledged to be the largest animal ever to have existed. Exam question 1 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 1 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

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Identify the organism which is acknowledged to be the largest animal ever to have existed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, acknowledge, be, exist · **To what, where:** organism, largest animal

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:e1:1
# text = Identify the organism which is acknowledged to be the largest animal ever to have existed.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	organism	organism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	advcl	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the organism |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme |
| 2 | **acknowledge** | present · passive |  | the organism |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the largest animal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **exist** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The largest of the dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:e1:o1:1
# text = The largest of the dinosaurs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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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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The colossal squid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:e1:o2:1
# text = The colossal squid
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The blue whale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:e1:o3:1
# text = The blue whale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 southern elephant seal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:e1:o4:1
# text = The southern elephant seal
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	southern	southern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	seal	seal	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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