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title: «penguins have teeth, I saw 'em in a picture» What is true about bir… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeoptery… · tree and pragmatics
description: «penguins have teeth, I saw 'em in a picture» What is true about birds and teeth? Test 10 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…

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«penguins have teeth, I saw 'em in a picture» What is true about birds and teeth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** penguins, I, picture · **What happens:** have, see, be · **To what, where:** teeth, 'em, picture · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t10:1
# text = «penguins have teeth, I saw 'em in a picture» What is true about birds and teeth?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | penguins | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | 'em *= they* |  | a picture |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a picture |  |  |  |  | about birds and teeth; true *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 {#o1}

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Birds never had teeth at any time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t10:o1:1
# text = Birds never had teeth at any time
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | past | Birds | teeth |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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All birds have teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t10:o2:1
# text = All birds have teeth
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | all birds | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only parrots have teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t10:o3:1
# text = Only parrots have teeth
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | parrots | teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

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

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No living bird has real teeth, but some early birds did

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t10:o4:1
# text = No living bird has real teeth, but some early birds did
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | no living bird | real teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | past | some early birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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