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title: An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck. Which group is… — Classifying unusual animals · tree and pragmatics
description: An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck. Which group is it in? Test 6 · ★★ 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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# Test 6 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals

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An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck. Which group is it in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal, group · **What happens:** lay, have, be in · **To what, where:** eggs, fur, beak

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» 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/29-classifying-unusual-animals/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6:1
# text = An animal lays eggs, has fur and a beak like a duck.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lays	lay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | a animal | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 2 | **have** | present | a animal *not said here* | fur and a beak like a duck |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fur=Patient |

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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:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6:2
# 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 | beak |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Mammals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6:o1:1
# 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 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6: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:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6: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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Amphibians

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:29-classifying-unusual-animals:t6:o4:1
# 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.

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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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