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title: State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Marth… — Endangered animals and extinction · tree and pragmatics
description: State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at Cincinnati Zoo. Exam question 4 of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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 wa
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# Exam question 4 · Endangered animals and extinction

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State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at Cincinnati Zoo.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** know, name, die · **To what, where:** last known passenger pigeon, Cincinnati Zoo

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:e4:1
# text = State the year in which the last known passenger pigeon, named Martha, died at Cincinnati Zoo.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
9	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Cincinnati	Cincinnati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | the last known passenger pigeon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **die** | past |  |  |  | Cincinnati Zoo |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Nineteen hundred and fourteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:e4:o1:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and fourteen
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nineteen hundred and thirty-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:e4:o2:1
# text = Nineteen hundred and thirty-six
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eighteen hundred and forty-four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:e4:o3:1
# text = Eighteen hundred and forty-four
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sixteen hundred and sixty-two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:e4:o4:1
# text = Sixteen hundred and sixty-two
1	Sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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