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title: A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring. How many ears are… — Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops · tree and pragmatics
description: A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring. How many ears are poking out? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 · ★ · Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops

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A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring. How many ears are poking out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** troop, many ears · **What happens:** sit, poke out

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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/15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:1
# text = A troop of 8 snow monkeys sits in the hot spring.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a troop of 8 snow monkeys |  |  |  | spring |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many ears are poking out?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:2
# text = How many ears are poking out?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	poking	poke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poke out** | present · progressive | many ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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32

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:o1:1
# text = 32
1	32	32	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:o2:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	NUM	CD	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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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:o3:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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 {#o4}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:15-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops:t11:o4:1
# 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.

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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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