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title: Identify the land animal capable of attaining the greatest velocity. — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the land animal capable of attaining the greatest velocity. Exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

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Identify the land animal capable of attaining the greatest velocity.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, attain · **To what, where:** land animal, greatest velocity

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:e1:1
# text = Identify the land animal capable of attaining the greatest velocity.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	attaining	attain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	velocity	velocity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 land animal |  |  |  | capable *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **attain** | gerund | you *not said here* | the greatest velocity |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velocity=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 {#o1}

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The leopard of Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:e1:o1:1
# text = The leopard of Africa
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leopard	leopard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The South American jaguar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:e1:o2:1
# text = The South American jaguar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jaguar	jaguar	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 cheetah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:e1:o3:1
# text = The cheetah
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cheetah	cheetah	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 African lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:e1:o4:1
# text = The African lion
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lion	lion	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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