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description: Identify the location of the impact which is understood to have caused the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs. Exam question 1 of lesson 271 «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 1 · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

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Identify the location of the impact which is understood to have caused the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, understand, cause, extinguish · **To what, where:** location, impact, extinction, non-bird dinosaurs

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 271 «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» 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/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died:e1:1
# text = Identify the location of the impact which is understood to have caused the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	impact	impact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	extinction	extinction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 location of the impact |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme |
| 2 | **understand** | present · passive |  | the impact |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cause** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition extinction=Patient |
| 4 | **extinguish** |  |  | the non-bird dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | nom extinction «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Sahara desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died:e1:o1:1
# text = The Sahara desert
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The interior of Australia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died:e1:o2:1
# text = The interior of Australia
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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 Chicxulub site in Mexico

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died:e1:o3:1
# text = The Chicxulub site in Mexico
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chicxulub	Chicxulub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The North Pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died:e1:o4:1
# text = The North Pole
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	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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