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title: A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank. How many l… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics
description: A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank. How many legs altogether? Test 3 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 3 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

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A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank. How many legs altogether?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** family · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** bank

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This is test 3 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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/155-the-amazon-river/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:1
# text = A family of 6 giant otters, sorry, 7, stands on the bank.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | a family of 6 giant otters |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |

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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 legs altogether?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:2
# text = How many legs altogether?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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35

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:o2:1
# text = 35
1	35	35	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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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:o3:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	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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28

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t3:o4:1
# text = 28
1	28	28	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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