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description: Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heart rates of animals. Exam question 4 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Exam question 4 · Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" m…

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Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heart rates of animals.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** select, establish, concern · **To what, where:** response

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 128 «Growing up: ages of people and pets, and the "dog years" myth» of the world 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/world/128-growing-up-ages-dog-years/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e4:1
# text = Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the heart rates of animals.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	established	establish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  | consistent *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |
| 2 | **establish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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Heart rate bears no relation to the size of the animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e4:o1:1
# text = Heart rate bears no relation to the size of the animal
1	Heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Smaller animals generally possess faster heart rates than larger animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e4:o2:1
# text = Smaller animals generally possess faster heart rates than larger animals
1	Smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | Smaller animals | faster heart rates |  |  |  | than larger animals; generally *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All mammals possess identical heart rates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e4:o3:1
# text = All mammals possess identical heart rates
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | all mammals | identical heart rates |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Larger animals generally possess faster heart rates than smaller animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:128-growing-up-ages-dog-years:e4:o4:1
# text = Larger animals generally possess faster heart rates than smaller animals
1	Larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rates	rate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | present | Larger animals | faster heart rates |  |  |  | than smaller animals; generally *property* | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot rate=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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