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title: Identify the longest bone of the human body. — The skeleton and muscles · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the longest bone of the human body. Exam question 4 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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 4 · The skeleton and muscles

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Identify the longest bone of the human body.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** longest bone

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 31 «The skeleton and muscles» 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/31-skeleton-and-muscles/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:e4:1
# text = Identify the longest bone of the human body.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	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 longest bone of the human body |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent bone=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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The backbone, or the spine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:e4:o1:1
# text = The backbone, or the spine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	backbone	backbone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spine	spine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The shin bone, or the tibia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:e4:o2:1
# text = The shin bone, or the tibia
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shin	shin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tibia	tibia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The thigh bone, or femur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:e4:o3:1
# text = The thigh bone, or femur
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thigh	thigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	femur	femur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The upper arm bone, or humerus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:31-skeleton-and-muscles:e4:o4:1
# text = The upper arm bone, or humerus
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	humerus	humerus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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