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title: «4 elephants in the old zoo picture, how many trunks and how many ta… — Why zoos exist and what critics say · tree and pragmatics
description: «4 elephants in the old zoo picture, how many trunks and how many tails altogether» Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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 10 · ★★ · Why zoos exist and what critics say

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«4 elephants in the old zoo picture, how many trunks and how many tails altogether»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 115 «Why zoos exist and what critics say» 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/115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t10:1
# text = «4 elephants in the old zoo picture, how many trunks and how many tails altogether»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
17	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	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 {#o1}

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4, the trunk is counted as a tail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t10:o1:1
# text = 4, the trunk is counted as a tail
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present · passive |  | the trunk |  |  |  | as a tail | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as tail=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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12, two trunks and one tail each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t10:o2:1
# text = 12, two trunks and one tail each
1	12	12	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	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	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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8, four trunks and four tails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t10:o3:1
# text = 8, four trunks and four tails
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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16, two trunks and two tails each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:115-why-zoos-exist-and-what-critics-say:t10:o4:1
# text = 16, two trunks and two tails each
1	16	16	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	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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