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title: Identify the group of living animals now classified as surviving din… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeoptery… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the group of living animals now classified as surviving dinosaurs. Exam question 1 of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Exam question 1 · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…

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Identify the group of living animals now classified as surviving dinosaurs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, classify, survive · **To what, where:** group, living animals

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:e1:1
# text = Identify the group of living animals now classified as surviving dinosaurs.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	classified	classify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	surviving	survive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 group of living animals |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent group=Theme |
| 2 | **classify** | participle |  | living animals *not said here* |  |  | now | as surviving dinosaurs | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as dinosaur=Attribute |
| 3 | **survive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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 {#o1}

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The lizards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:e1:o1:1
# text = The lizards
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:e1:o2:1
# text = The birds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The amphibians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:e1:o3:1
# text = The amphibians
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	amphibians	amphibian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 crocodiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:e1:o4:1
# text = The crocodiles
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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