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# Test 10 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

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«stick insects on 1 rock, thought they were extinct, now zoos have thousands» What happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stick insects, insects, zoos, thousands · **What happens:** think, be, have, happen · **To what, where:** thousands · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» of the biology 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/biology/190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t10:1
# text = «stick insects on 1 rock, thought they were extinct, now zoos have thousands» What happened?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | stick insects on 1 rock |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | insects *= insect* |  |  |  |  | extinct *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | zoos | thousands |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient |
| 4 | **happen** | past | thousands |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A few were found in 2001 and bred in zoos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t10:o1:1
# text = A few were found in 2001 and bred in zoos
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bred	breed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | a few |  | 2001 |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **breed** | past |  |  |  | zoos |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They were robots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t10:o2:1
# text = They were robots
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	robots	robot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | They | robots |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They flew back by themselves from another island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t10:o3:1
# text = They flew back by themselves from another island
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly back** | past | They |  |  | another island |  | by themselves *= they* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Scientists made them from fossils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t10:o4:1
# text = Scientists made them from fossils
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Scientists | them *= they* |  | fossils |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset they=Product from fossil=Material |

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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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