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title: Identify, from among the following, a decomposer. — Food chains and food webs · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify, from among the following, a decomposer. Exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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 right.
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# Exam question 3 · Food chains and food webs

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Identify, from among the following, a decomposer.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, follow · **To what, where:** decomposer

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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/26-food-chains-and-webs/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:e3:1
# text = Identify, from among the following, a decomposer.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	decomposer	decomposer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 decomposer |  |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A fungus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:e3:o1:1
# text = A fungus
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:e3:o2:1
# text = A fox
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	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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A grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:e3:o3:1
# text = A grass
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	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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A rabbit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:e3:o4:1
# text = A rabbit
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	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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