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title: Ascertain the maximal velocity attained by the peregrine falcon in i… — Birds of prey and owls · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the maximal velocity attained by the peregrine falcon in its stoop. Exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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 3 · Birds of prey and owls

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Ascertain the maximal velocity attained by the peregrine falcon in its stoop.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, falcon · **What happens:** ascertain, attain, stoop · **To what, where:** maximal velocity

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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/34-birds-of-prey-and-owls/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the maximal velocity attained by the peregrine falcon in its stoop.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	maximal	maximal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	velocity	velocity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	stoop	stoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the maximal velocity |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velocity=Topic |
| 2 | **attain** | participle |  | the maximal velocity *not said here* |  |  |  | by the peregrine falcon in falcon's stoop | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stoop** |  | falcon |  |  |  |  |  | nom stoop «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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Approximately sixty kilometres per hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:e3:o1:1
# text = Approximately sixty kilometres per hour
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	per	per	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Approximately three thousand kilometres per hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:e3:o2:1
# text = Approximately three thousand kilometres per hour
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	per	per	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately thirty kilometres per hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:e3:o3:1
# text = Approximately thirty kilometres per hour
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	per	per	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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In excess of three hundred kilometres per hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:34-birds-of-prey-and-owls:e3:o4:1
# text = In excess of three hundred kilometres per hour
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	per	per	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	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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