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# Test 2 · ★ · Endangered animals and extinction

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«there were billions of them, no way a bird like that dies out» What does the passenger pigeon show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** billions, that, way · **What happens:** be, die out, show · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 77 «Endangered animals and extinction» 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/77-endangered-animals-and-extinction/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t2:1
# text = «there were billions of them, no way a bird like that dies out» What does the passenger pigeon show?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	billions	billion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
12	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | past | billions of them |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die out** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **show** | present · do-support | no way |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Passenger pigeons are still flying today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t2:o1:1
# text = Passenger pigeons are still flying today
1	Passenger	passenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present · progressive | Passenger pigeons |  |  |  | still; today |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only rare animals ever go extinct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t2:o2:1
# text = Only rare animals ever go extinct
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	extinct	extinct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | rare animals |  |  |  | ever | extinct *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Even the commonest animal can disappear when hunted and its forests lost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t2:o3:1
# text = Even the commonest animal can disappear when hunted and its forests lost
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	commonest	common	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	disappear	disappear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disappear** | can | the commonest animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | participle | the commonest animal *not said here* | animal's forests |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lose** | participle | the commonest animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Common animals can never die out, however many people hunt them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:77-endangered-animals-and-extinction:t2:o4:1
# text = Common animals can never die out, however many people hunt them
1	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **die out** | can | Common animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | many people | animals *= animal* |  |  |  | however *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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