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title: Identify the principal prey of the great white shark. — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bu… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal prey of the great white shark. Exam question 1 of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 1 · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead

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Identify the principal prey of the great white shark.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal prey

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal prey of the great white shark.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 principal prey of the great white shark |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent prey=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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Human beings frequenting beaches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:e1:o1:1
# text = Human beings frequenting beaches
1	Human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	frequenting	frequent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	beaches	beach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frequent** | gerund | Human beings *not said here* | beaches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Seaweed and other marine vegetation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:e1:o2:1
# text = Seaweed and other marine vegetation
1	Seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	marine	marine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	vegetation	vegetation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Seals, fish and the carcasses of whales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:e1:o3:1
# text = Seals, fish and the carcasses of whales
1	Seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exclusively other species of shark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:e1:o4:1
# text = Exclusively other species of shark
1	Exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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