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title: 3 hippos and 5 meerkats in the African area. How many tails? — The African savanna area: hippos, meer… · tree and pragmatics
description: 3 hippos and 5 meerkats in the African area. How many tails? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wil…

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3 hippos and 5 meerkats in the African area. How many tails?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* 3 hippos and 5 meerkats in the African area.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:1
# text = 3 hippos and 5 meerkats in the African area.
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* How many tails?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:2
# text = How many tails?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tails	tail	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:o2:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t8:o4:1
# text = 15
1	15	15	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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