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title: A sugar glider and a flying squirrel both glide. What does this show? — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sugar glider and a flying squirrel both glide. What does this show? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» of the biology 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 11 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

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A sugar glider and a flying squirrel both glide. What does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sugar glider, this · **What happens:** fly, glide, show

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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/104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A sugar glider and a flying squirrel both glide.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:1
# text = A sugar glider and a flying squirrel both glide.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	glider	glider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	glide	glide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glide** | present | a sugar glider and a flying squirrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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:* What does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:2
# text = What does this show?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Gliding animals are all rodents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:o1:1
# text = Gliding animals are all rodents
1	Gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Gliding animals | rodents |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Different animals can evolve the same trick separately

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:o2:1
# text = Different animals can evolve the same trick separately
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	evolve	evolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evolve** | can | Different animals | the same trick |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location trick=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sugar glider copied the squirrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:o3:1
# text = The sugar glider copied the squirrel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	glider	glider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | past | the sugar glider | the squirrel |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squirrel=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are exactly the same animal living on two continents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t11:o4:1
# text = They are exactly the same animal living on two continents
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | the same animal |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | the same animal *not said here* |  |  | two continents |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location |

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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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