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description: Identify the principal sense by means of which the domestic dog apprehends its surroundings. Exam question 1 of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Exam question 1 · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

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Identify the principal sense by means of which the domestic dog apprehends its surroundings.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, domestic dog · **What happens:** identify, mean, apprehend · **To what, where:** principal sense, surroundings

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal sense by means of which the domestic dog apprehends its surroundings.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	apprehends	apprehend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 principal sense |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent sense=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **apprehend** | present | the domestic dog | dog's surroundings |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer surroundings=Stimulus |

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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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The sense of smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:e1:o1:1
# text = The sense of smell
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** |  |  | smell |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sense of taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:e1:o2:1
# text = The sense of taste
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** |  |  | taste |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sense of touch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:e1:o3:1
# text = The sense of touch
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** |  |  | touch |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The sense of sight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:e1:o4:1
# text = The sense of sight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sense** |  |  | sight |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition 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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