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title: Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat. — Australia's forests and Tasmania: devi… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat. Exam question 1 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

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Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify · **To what, where:** principal characteristic

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e1:1
# text = Identify the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wombat	wombat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal characteristic of the droppings of the wombat |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent characteristic=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They are luminous at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e1:o1:1
# text = They are luminous at night
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  | night | luminous *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They are spherical and are buried beneath the soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e1:o2:1
# text = They are spherical and are buried beneath the soil
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	spherical	spherical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | spherical *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** | present · passive | They *not said here* |  |  | the soil |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: beneath soil=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They are deposited exclusively in water, in the manner of the platypus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e1:o3:1
# text = They are deposited exclusively in water, in the manner of the platypus
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deposit** | present · passive |  | They |  | water |  | in the manner of the platypus; exclusively *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in water=Destination |

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

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They are cubic in shape and are deposited upon rocks and logs to mark territory

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds:e1:o4:1
# text = They are cubic in shape and are deposited upon rocks and logs to mark territory
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cubic	cubic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  | shape |  | cubic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deposit** | present · passive | They *not said here* |  |  | rocks and logs |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: upon rock=Destination |
| 3 | **mark** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | territory |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination |

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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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