--- title: 2 lions and 1 elephant are weighed today. How many tails go on the s… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the… · tree and pragmatics description: 2 lions and 1 elephant are weighed today. How many tails go on the scales? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/t12/) [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: the zoo vet and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital 2 lions and 1 elephant are weighed today. How many tails go on the scales? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many tails · **What happens:** weigh, go · **To what, where:** 2 lions, scales This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* 2 lions and 1 elephant are weighed today. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12:1 # text = 2 lions and 1 elephant are weighed today. 1 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 weighed weigh VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 today today NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present · passive | | 2 lions and 1 elephant | | | today | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | 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 tails go on the scales? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12:2 # text = How many tails go on the scales? 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | many tails | | | the scales | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on scale=Location | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12: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} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12:o2:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t12:o4:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS 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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