--- title: The keeper counts 12 meerkats in the morning. How many ears and tail… — Behind the scenes: a day with the keep… · tree and pragmatics description: The keeper counts 12 meerkats in the morning. How many ears and tails is that altogether? Test 3 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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 wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Behind the scenes: a day with the keep…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers/) / t3 # Test 3 · Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers The keeper counts 12 meerkats in the morning. How many ears and tails is that altogether? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** keeper · **What happens:** count · **To what, where:** 12 meerkats This is test 3 of lesson 109 «Behind the scenes: a day with the keepers» 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/109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The keeper counts 12 meerkats in the morning. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:1 # text = The keeper counts 12 meerkats in the morning. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 meerkats meerkat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | the keeper | 12 meerkats | | | morning | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meerkat=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many ears and tails is that altogether? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:2 # text = How many ears and tails is that altogether? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 altogether altogether DET DT PronType=Tot 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:o1:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 36 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:o2:1 # text = 36 1 36 36 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 48 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:o3:1 # text = 48 1 48 48 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:109-behind-the-scenes-a-day-with-the-keepers:t3:o4:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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