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title: Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produ… — Friends who cling to a legend · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produces the largest egg. Exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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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# Exam question 1 · Friends who cling to a legend

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Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produces the largest egg.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, those · **What happens:** identify, live, produce · **To what, where:** bird species, largest egg

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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/myths/31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e1:1
# text = Identify the bird species, among those presently living, which produces the largest egg.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	produces	produce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bird species |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent species=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | those |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **produce** | present |  | the largest egg |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

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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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The golden eagle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e1:o1:1
# text = The golden eagle
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagle	eagle	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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The emu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e1:o2:1
# text = The emu
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emu	emu	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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The ostrich

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e1:o3:1
# text = The ostrich
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ostrich	ostrich	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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The albatross

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:31-friends-who-cling-to-a-legend:e1:o4:1
# text = The albatross
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	albatross	albatross	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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