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title: «5 mice in the cage, how many tails and how many legs, my sis says 5… — How real mice survive: squeezing, clim… · tree and pragmatics
description: «5 mice in the cage, how many tails and how many legs, my sis says 5 and 10» Test 12 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» 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 wro
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# Test 12 · How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding

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«5 mice in the cage, how many tails and how many legs, my sis says 5 and 10»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sis · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** 5 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 of lesson 120 «How real mice survive: squeezing, climbing and hiding» 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/120-how-real-mice-survive/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t12:1
# text = «5 mice in the cage, how many tails and how many legs, my sis says 5 and 10»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	ccomp	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sis	sis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my sis | 5 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 5=Topic |

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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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5 tails and 10 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t12:o1:1
# text = 5 tails and 10 legs
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10 tails and 20 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t12:o2:1
# text = 10 tails and 20 legs
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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0 tails and 20 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t12:o3:1
# text = 0 tails and 20 legs
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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5 tails and 20 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:120-how-real-mice-survive:t12:o4:1
# text = 5 tails and 20 legs
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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