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title: Identify the animal regarded as the largest known to have existed. — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the animal regarded as the largest known to have existed. Exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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 rig
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# Exam question 1 · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

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Identify the animal regarded as the largest known to have existed.

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, regard, know, exist · **To what, where:** animal

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» 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/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e1:1
# text = Identify the animal regarded as the largest known to have existed.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	obl:agent	_	_
8	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 animal |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 2 | **regard** | participle |  | the animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **exist** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The African elephant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e1:o1:1
# text = The African elephant
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The blue whale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e1:o2:1
# text = The blue whale
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whale	whale	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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Argentinosaurus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e1:o3:1
# text = Argentinosaurus
1	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	NNP	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 whale shark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:e1:o4:1
# text = The whale shark
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	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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