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title: Which animal is the closest living relative of T. rex in this list? — The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal is the closest living relative of T. rex in this list? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 76 «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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 8 · ★★ · The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs

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Which animal is the closest living relative of T. rex in this list?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** closest living relative

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 76 «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds:t8:1
# text = Which animal is the closest living relative of T. rex in this list?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which animal | the closest living relative |  |  |  | of T. rex in this list | 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 {#o1}

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A rhino

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds:t8:o1:1
# text = A rhino
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rhino	rhino	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 lizard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds:t8:o2:1
# text = A lizard
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A chicken

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds:t8:o3:1
# text = A chicken
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A shark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds:t8:o4:1
# text = A shark
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shark	shark	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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