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title: «2 platypuses and 3 koalas at Healesville, how many tails, mate» — Zoos in Australia and around the world… · tree and pragmatics
description: «2 platypuses and 3 koalas at Healesville, how many tails, mate» Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

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«2 platypuses and 3 koalas at Healesville, how many tails, mate»

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t10:1
# text = «2 platypuses and 3 koalas at Healesville, how many tails, mate»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Healesville	Healesville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
2, koalas have no tail at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t10:o1:1
# text = 2, koalas have no tail at all
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	koalas	koala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | 2 koalas | no tail |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
10, two tails each for all five of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t10:o2:1
# text = 10, two tails each for all five of them
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
8	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
5, one tail each, though a koala's is tiny

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t10:o3:1
# text = 5, one tail each, though a koala's is tiny
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a koala |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
3, platypuses have no tail, only flat feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t10:o4:1
# text = 3, platypuses have no tail, only flat feet
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | 3 platypuses | no tail and flat feet |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

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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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