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title: Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky. Which shape shou… — Buildings and architecture · tree and pragmatics
description: Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky. Which shape should she use? Test 8 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» of the arts 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 8 · Buildings and architecture

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Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky. Which shape should she use?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** marshmallow square, shape · **What happens:** keep, go, use

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This is test 8 of lesson 34 «Buildings and architecture» of the arts 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/arts/34-buildings-and-architecture/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:1
# text = Your friend's marshmallow square keeps going wonky.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	marshmallow	marshmallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	wonky	wonky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Your friend's marshmallow square |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | Your friend's marshmallow square *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wonky *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which shape should she use?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:2
# text = Which shape should she use?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | should | which shape |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Triangles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:o1:1
# text = Triangles
1	Triangles	triangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pentagons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:o2:1
# text = Pentagons
1	Pentagons	pentagon	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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More squares, stacked higher so they hold each other up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:o3:1
# text = More squares, stacked higher so they hold each other up
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	8	obj	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stack** | participle · passive |  | More squares |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hold up** | present | squares *= square* | each |  |  |  | high *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot each=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Circles, which are the strongest shape for any frame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:34-buildings-and-architecture:t8:o4:1
# text = Circles, which are the strongest shape for any frame
1	Circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	strongest	strong	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Circles | the strongest shape |  |  |  | for any frame | tree rules |

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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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