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title: shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right? — Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight · tree and pragmatics
description: shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right? Test 7 of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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 right.
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# Test 7 · Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight

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shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, birds · **What happens:** shut, be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 7 of lesson 33 «Birds: feathers, wings, eggs and flight» 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/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t7:1
# text = shut it, birds aint dinosaurs, dinosaurs are all dead. who's right?
1	shut	shut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	aint	aint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shut** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | birds and aint dinosaurs and dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | all, dead *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Birds evolved from dinosaurs, so scientists call them living dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t7:o1:1
# text = Birds evolved from dinosaurs, so scientists call them living dinosaurs
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evolve** | past | Birds |  |  |  |  | from dinosaurs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from dinosaur=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | present | scientists | Birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | gerund | scientists *not said here* | dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Birds are a kind of mammal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t7:o2:1
# text = Birds are a kind of mammal
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Birds | a kind |  |  |  | of mammal | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Birds and dinosaurs are not related at all, they just look a bit alike

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t7:o3:1
# text = Birds and dinosaurs are not related at all, they just look a bit alike
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Birds and dinosaurs |  |  | all |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | Birds *= bird* |  |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dinosaurs evolved from birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight:t7:o4:1
# text = Dinosaurs evolved from birds
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	evolved	evolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evolve** | past | Dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | from birds | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent from bird=Patient |

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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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