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title: «Taronga had 6 giraffes but, wait, one's a baby born yesterday so 7.… — Zoos in Australia and around the world… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Taronga had 6 giraffes but, wait, one's a baby born yesterday so 7. how many legs» Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myt…

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«Taronga had 6 giraffes but, wait, one's a baby born yesterday so 7. how many legs»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Taronga, one, baby · **What happens:** have, wait, be, bear · **To what, where:** 6 giraffes, many legs, baby, 7

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 117 «Zoos in Australia and around the world, and the year's myths put right» 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/117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t9:1
# text = «Taronga had 6 giraffes but, wait, one's a baby born yesterday so 7. how many legs»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Taronga	Taronga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
19	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Taronga | 6 giraffes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient |
| 2 | **wait** *in a quote* | infinitive | Taronga *not said here* | many legs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | one | a baby |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle | a baby *not said here* | 7 |  |  | yesterday |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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14, two legs each for 7 giraffes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t9:o1:1
# text = 14, two legs each for 7 giraffes
1	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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28, four legs each for 7 giraffes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t9:o2:1
# text = 28, four legs each for 7 giraffes
1	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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24, four legs each for 6 giraffes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t9:o3:1
# text = 24, four legs each for 6 giraffes
1	24	24	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	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	appos	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
21, three legs each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:117-zoos-around-the-world-and-myths-put-right:t9:o4:1
# text = 21, three legs each
1	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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