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title: What animal has a very short neck but still has seven neck bones? — Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What animal has a very short neck but still has seven neck bones? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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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# Test 5 · ★ · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

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What animal has a very short neck but still has seven neck bones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** short neck, seven neck bones

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs:t5:1
# text = What animal has a very short neck but still has seven neck bones?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | animal | a short neck |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | animal *not said here* | seven neck bones |  |  | still |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |

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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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A bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs:t5:o1:1
# text = A bird
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs:t5:o2:1
# text = A fish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A snake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs:t5:o3:1
# text = A snake
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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A mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs:t5:o4:1
# text = A mouse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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