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title: A strange animal has feathers but cannot fly. Which group is it in? — Groups of animals and how to tell them… · tree and pragmatics
description: A strange animal has feathers but cannot fly. Which group is it in? Test 1 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 1 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart

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A strange animal has feathers but cannot fly. Which group is it in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** strange animal, group · **What happens:** have, not fly, be in · **To what, where:** feathers, animal

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This is test 1 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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/world/24-animal-groups/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A strange animal has feathers but cannot fly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1:1
# text = A strange animal has feathers but cannot fly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a strange animal | feathers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **fly** | can | a strange animal *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which group is it in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1:2
# text = Which group is it in?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	expl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be in** | present | which group | animal |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Insects

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1:o1:1
# text = Insects
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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Birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Reptiles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1: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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Mammals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t1:o4:1
# 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.

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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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