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title: Which big animals of today are survivors of the age of giants? — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which big animals of today are survivors of the age of giants? Test 11 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 11 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

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Which big animals of today are survivors of the age of giants?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t11:1
# text = Which big animals of today are survivors of the age of giants?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	survivors	survivor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | of the age of giants | of today survivors | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Goldfish and frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t11:o1:1
# text = Goldfish and frogs
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Elephants, rhinos and hippos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t11:o2:1
# text = Elephants, rhinos and hippos
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cats, dogs and rabbits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t11:o3:1
# text = Cats, dogs and rabbits
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sparrows, pigeons and crows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t11:o4:1
# text = Sparrows, pigeons and crows
1	Sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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