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title: «my mum reckons that pangolin is a pine cone with legs lol» What is… — Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehog… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my mum reckons that pangolin is a pine cone with legs lol» What is it really? Test 9 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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 wrong
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# Test 9 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

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«my mum reckons that pangolin is a pine cone with legs lol» What is it really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mum, pangolin · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** pine cone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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/248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t9:1
# text = «my mum reckons that pangolin is a pine cone with legs lol» What is it really?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	pangolin	pangolin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	parataxis	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
18	really	really	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | my mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pangolin | a pine cone |  |  |  | with legs | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | pangolin |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A baby armadillo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t9:o1:1
# text = A baby armadillo
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	armadillo	armadillo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A kind of lizard with feathers that lives in the trees of Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t9:o2:1
# text = A kind of lizard with feathers that lives in the trees of Africa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a kind of lizard with feathers |  |  | the trees of Africa |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |

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

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A mammal with keratin scales that rolls up in danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t9:o3:1
# text = A mammal with keratin scales that rolls up in danger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mammal	mammal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	keratin	keratin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | present | keratin scales |  |  | danger |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A walking plant with green leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t9:o4:1
# text = A walking plant with green leaves
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	walking	walking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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