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title: A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs. H… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda… · tree and pragmatics
description: A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs. How many caimans probably? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

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A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs. How many caimans probably?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** torch · **What happens:** show, glow · **To what, where:** 7 pairs

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t4:1
# text = A guide's torch shows 7 pairs of glowing red eyes, sorry, 8 pairs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a guide's torch | 7 pairs of glowing red eyes |  |  |  | 8 pairs *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pair=Recipient |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 caimans probably?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t4:2
# text = How many caimans probably?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	caimans	caiman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t4:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t4:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales: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 {#o4}

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales:t4:o4:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	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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