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title: Identify the class of animals possessing smooth, moist skin and usua… — Groups of animals and how to tell them… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the class of animals possessing smooth, moist skin and usually depositing their eggs in water. Exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Exam question 3 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

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Identify the class of animals possessing smooth, moist skin and usually depositing their eggs in water.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, animals · **What happens:** identify, possess, deposit · **To what, where:** class, smooth moist skin, eggs, water

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» 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/24-animal-groups/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:e3:1
# text = Identify the class of animals possessing smooth, moist skin and usually depositing their eggs in water.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	possessing	possess	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	moist	moist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	depositing	deposit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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 class of animals |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent class=Theme |
| 2 | **possess** | gerund | animals *not said here* | smooth moist skin |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot skin=Theme |
| 3 | **deposit** | gerund | animals *not said here* | animals's eggs |  | water |  | usually *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in water=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Amphibians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:e3:o1:1
# text = Amphibians
1	Amphibians	amphibian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mammals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:e3:o2:1
# text = Mammals
1	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reptiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:e3:o3:1
# text = Reptiles
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:e3:o4:1
# text = Birds
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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