--- title: An elephant weighs 4000 kilograms and a tortoise 200. How many torto… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the… · tree and pragmatics description: An elephant weighs 4000 kilograms and a tortoise 200. How many tortoises weigh as much as the elephant? Test 9 · ★★ 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 ea --- [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/t9/) [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital An elephant weighs 4000 kilograms and a tortoise 200. How many tortoises weigh as much as the elephant? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** elephant, many tortoises · **What happens:** weigh · **To what, where:** 4000 kilograms, much This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* An elephant weighs 4000 kilograms and a tortoise 200. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:1 # text = An elephant weighs 4000 kilograms and a tortoise 200. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 weighs weigh VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 4000 4000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 kilograms kilogram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | a elephant | 4000 kilograms and a tortoise | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=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 tortoises weigh as much as the elephant? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:2 # text = How many tortoises weigh as much as the elephant? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tortoises tortoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 weigh weigh VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weigh** | present | many tortoises | much | | | | as the elephant | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 40 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:o1:1 # text = 40 1 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 200 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:o2:1 # text = 200 1 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:o3:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t9:o4:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 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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