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title: You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth show… — The reptile house: Komodo dragons, cha… · tree and pragmatics
description: You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing. What is it? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 7 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

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You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing. What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, lower teeth, reptile · **What happens:** see, shape, show, be · **To what, where:** reptile

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:1
# text = You see a reptile with a wide U-shaped snout and no lower teeth showing.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | You | a reptile |  |  |  | with a wide shaped snout and no lower teeth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reptile=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | no lower teeth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:2
# text = What is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | reptile |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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An alligator

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:o1:1
# text = An alligator
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alligator	alligator	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 Komodo dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:o2:1
# text = A Komodo dragon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dragon	dragon	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 little house gecko

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:o3:1
# text = A little house gecko
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gecko	gecko	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 Nile crocodile

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles:t7:o4:1
# text = A Nile crocodile
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crocodile	crocodile	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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