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title: «echidna's just an Aussie hedgehog» What is right? — Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «echidna's just an Aussie hedgehog» What is right? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

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«echidna's just an Aussie hedgehog» What is right?

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

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t9:1
# text = «echidna's just an Aussie hedgehog» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	echidna	echidna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Aussie	aussie	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | echidna's Aussie hedgehog |  |  |  |  | right *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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Yes, it is the same animal with a new name

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, it is the same animal with a new name
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	name	name	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 | it | the same animal |  |  |  | with a new name | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, it is a kind of porcupine bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t9:o2:1
# text = No, it is a kind of porcupine bird
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a kind |  |  |  | of porcupine bird | tree rules |

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

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It looks like one but is an egg-laying mammal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t9:o3:1
# text = It looks like one but is an egg-laying mammal
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | It |  |  |  |  | like one | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | a laying mammal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, hedgehogs in Australia grow longer noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, hedgehogs in Australia grow longer noses
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | hedgehogs in Australia | noses |  |  |  | long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nose=Theme |

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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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