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title: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning… — Crocodiles and alligators · tree and pragmatics
description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the nearest living relatives of the crocodiles. Exam question 4 of lesson 29 «Crocodiles and alligators» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Exam question 4 · Crocodiles and alligators

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the nearest living relatives of the crocodiles.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, established facts · **What happens:** select, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response, nearest living relatives

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 29 «Crocodiles and alligators» 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/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:29-crocodiles-and-alligators:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the nearest living relatives of the crocodiles.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
12	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the established facts *not said here* | the nearest living relatives of the crocodiles |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus relative=Experiencer |

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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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Lizards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:29-crocodiles-and-alligators:e4:o1:1
# text = Lizards
1	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 {#o2}

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Frogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:29-crocodiles-and-alligators:e4:o2:1
# text = Frogs
1	Frogs	frog	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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Snakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:29-crocodiles-and-alligators:e4:o3:1
# text = Snakes
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:29-crocodiles-and-alligators:e4:o4:1
# text = Birds
1	Birds	bird	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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