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title: «4 hyenas fighting over 1 zebra, how many tails in that mess» How ma… — The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zaz… · tree and pragmatics
description: «4 hyenas fighting over 1 zebra, how many tails in that mess» How many? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 126 «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 4 · ★ · The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mand…

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«4 hyenas fighting over 1 zebra, how many tails in that mess» How many?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 4 hyenas · **What happens:** fight · **To what, where:** 1 zebra, mess

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 126 «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» 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/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu:t4:1
# text = «4 hyenas fighting over 1 zebra, how many tails in that mess» How many?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** *in a quote* | gerund | 4 hyenas | 1 zebra |  | that mess |  | many tails *obl* | 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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu:t4:o1:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu:t4:o2:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu:t4:o3:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu:t4:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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