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title: «wombat poo's square?? someone's carving it lol» What is true? — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «wombat poo's square?? someone's carving it lol» What is true? Test 4 · ★★ 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 4 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

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«wombat poo's square?? someone's carving it lol» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poo square · **What happens:** carve, be · **To what, where:** it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t4:1
# text = «wombat poo's square?? someone's carving it lol» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	wombat	wombat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	carving	carve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** *in a quote* | present · progressive | poo square | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Wombats make cube-shaped droppings in their own gut

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t4:o1:1
# text = Wombats make cube-shaped droppings in their own gut
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cube	cube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Wombats | shaped droppings |  | Wombats's own gut |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wombats press each dropping flat against square stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t4:o2:1
# text = Wombats press each dropping flat against square stones
1	Wombats	wombat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	press	press	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
4	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | present | Wombats | each |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent each=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drop** | gerund | Wombats *not said here* |  |  | square stones |  | flat *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme against stone=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, the keepers carve it into cubes for visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t4:o3:1
# text = Yes, the keepers carve it into cubes for visitors
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carve	carve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cubes	cube	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | present | the keepers | it |  | cubes |  | for visitors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material into cube=Product for visitor=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is not poo but soil from digging

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t4:o4:1
# text = It is not poo but soil from digging
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | It | poo but soil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dig** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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