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title: State the two mammals of Australia which reproduce by laying eggs. — Animals of Australia and New Zealand:… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the two mammals of Australia which reproduce by laying eggs. Exam question 4 of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 4 · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

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State the two mammals of Australia which reproduce by laying eggs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** two mammals · **What happens:** reproduce, lay · **To what, where:** eggs

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:e4:1
# text = State the two mammals of Australia which reproduce by laying eggs.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reproduce** | present | the two mammals of Australia |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | the two mammals of Australia *not said here* | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

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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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The emu and the laughing kookaburra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:e4:o1:1
# text = The emu and the laughing kookaburra
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emu	emu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	kookaburra	kookaburra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The red kangaroo and the koala

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:e4:o2:1
# text = The red kangaroo and the koala
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	koala	koala	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The wombat and the Tasmanian devil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:e4:o3:1
# text = The wombat and the Tasmanian devil
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wombat	wombat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Tasmanian	Tasmanian	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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The platypus and the echidna

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:e4:o4:1
# text = The platypus and the echidna
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	platypus	platypus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	echidna	echidna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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