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title: «how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh w… — Feeding times and the zoo kitchen · tree and pragmatics
description: «how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh wait, 5» Test 11 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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 11 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

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«how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh wait, 5»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 4 vultures · **What happens:** be, wait · **To what, where:** 5

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This is test 11 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen:t11:1
# text = «how many tails at the vulture feeding, there's 4 vultures and, oh wait, 5»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	parataxis	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	feeding	feeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	vultures	vulture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	_
17	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | 4 vultures |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | 4 vultures *not said here* | 5 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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0, birds do not have tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen:t11:o1:1
# text = 0, birds do not have tails
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · do-support | 0 birds | tails |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10, two tails each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen:t11:o2:1
# text = 10, two tails each
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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5, one tail for each vulture

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen:t11:o3:1
# text = 5, one tail for each vulture
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	vulture	vulture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4, as first said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen:t11:o4:1
# text = 4, as first said
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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