--- title: An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. What… — Groups of animals and how to tell them… · tree and pragmatics description: An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. What is it? Test 9 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/24-animal-groups/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Groups of animals and how to tell them…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/24-animal-groups/) / t9 # Test 9 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. What is it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** have, lay, be · **To what, where:** scales, leathery eggs, sand This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:1 # text = An animal has scales, dry skin and lays leathery eggs in sand. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 lays lay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 leathery leathery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a animal | scales and dry skin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Patient | | 2 | **lay** | present | a animal *not said here* | leathery eggs | | sand | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* What is it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:2 # text = What is it? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | animal | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} An amphibian ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:o1:1 # text = An amphibian 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 amphibian amphibian NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A bird ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:o2:1 # text = A bird 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} A reptile ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:o3:1 # text = A reptile 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 reptile reptile NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:24-animal-groups:t9:o4:1 # text = A fish 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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