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title: Identify, from among the following, the only mammals capable of true… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify, from among the following, the only mammals capable of true flight. Exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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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# Exam question 1 · Classifying unusual animals

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Identify, from among the following, the only mammals capable of true flight.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, follow

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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/29-classifying-unusual-animals/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:e1:1
# text = Identify, from among the following, the only mammals capable of true flight.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
6	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Ostriches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:e1:o1:1
# text = Ostriches
1	Ostriches	ostrich	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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Bats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:e1:o2:1
# text = Bats
1	Bats	bat	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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Flying squirrels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:e1:o3:1
# text = Flying squirrels
1	Flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Penguins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:e1:o4:1
# text = Penguins
1	Penguins	penguin	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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