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title: Which living thing is the smallest? — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: Which living thing is the smallest? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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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# Test 6 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

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Which living thing is the smallest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** living thing · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t6:1
# text = Which living thing is the smallest?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which living thing |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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A mushroom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t6:o1:1
# text = A mushroom
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mushroom	mushroom	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 grain of mould you can see

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t6:o2:1
# text = A grain of mould you can see
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | you | a grain of mould *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A bacterium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t6:o3:1
# text = A bacterium
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bacterium	bacterium	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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An ant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t6:o4:1
# text = An ant
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ant	ant	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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