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title: «found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right? — Strange discoveries: living fossils, h… · tree and pragmatics
description: «found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 8 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

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«found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** find, be · **To what, where:** new animal, museum drawer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t8:1
# text = «found a new animal in a museum drawer? ha, sure» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
11	ha	ha	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | past |  | a new animal |  | a museum drawer |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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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It was a toy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t8:o1:1
# text = It was a toy
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Museums only keep paintings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t8:o2:1
# text = Museums only keep paintings
1	Museums	museum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Museums | paintings |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Drawers cannot hold animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t8:o3:1
# text = Drawers cannot hold animals
1	Drawers	drawer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** | can | Drawers | animals |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |

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

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The olinguito was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:190-strange-discoveries-living-fossils-hidden-apes-and-animals-found-in-drawers:t8:o4:1
# text = The olinguito was named in 2013 after scientists studied museum skins
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	olinguito	olinguito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	2013	2013	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | the olinguito |  | 2013 |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | past | scientists | museum skins |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Topic |

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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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