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title: A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its… — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, e… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail. How many parts touch the ground? Test 3 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 3 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

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A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail. How many parts touch the ground?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kangaroo, many parts · **What happens:** walk, touch · **To what, where:** two front paws, ground

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This is test 3 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology 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/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:1
# text = A kangaroo walks slowly on its two front paws, two back feet and its tail.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	compound	_	_
13	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | a kangaroo |  |  | kangaroo's two front paws and two back feet and kangaroo's tail |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on paw=Trajectory |

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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:* How many parts touch the ground?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:2
# text = How many parts touch the ground?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | present | many parts | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:o2:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:o3:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t3:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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