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title: The show has 2 sea lions and 1 harbour seal. How many ear flaps can… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics
description: The show has 2 sea lions and 1 harbour seal. How many ear flaps can you see? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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 2 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

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The show has 2 sea lions and 1 harbour seal. How many ear flaps can you see?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** show, many ear flaps · **What happens:** have, see · **To what, where:** 2 sea lions

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* The show has 2 sea lions and 1 harbour seal.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2:1
# text = The show has 2 sea lions and 1 harbour seal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the show | 2 sea lions and harbour seal |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=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 ear flaps can you see?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2:2
# text = How many ear flaps can you see?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	flaps	flap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | many ear flaps |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2: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 {#o2}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2:o2:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2:o3:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t2:o4:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	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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**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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