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title: Count them: three dragonflies zip past. How many wings? — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: three dragonflies zip past. How many wings? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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 5 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

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Count them: three dragonflies zip past. How many wings?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, three dragonflies · **What happens:** count, zip · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: three dragonflies zip past.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:1
# text = Count them: three dragonflies zip past.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	dragonflies	dragonfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	zip	zip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	past	past	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **zip** | present | three dragonflies |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many wings?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:2
# text = How many wings?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:o2:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:o3:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t5:o4:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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