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title: Three forest elephants walk past. How many trunks and how many tusks… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three forest elephants walk past. How many trunks and how many tusks, if each has two? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…

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Three forest elephants walk past. How many trunks and how many tusks, if each has two?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Three forest elephants, many trunks · **What happens:** walk, have · **To what, where:** two

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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/159-the-congo-rainforest/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Three forest elephants walk past.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:1
# text = Three forest elephants walk past.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	past	past	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Three forest elephants |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 trunks and how many tusks, if each has two?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:2
# text = How many trunks and how many tusks, if each has two?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | many trunks and many tusks | two |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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3 trunks and 12 tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:o1:1
# text = 3 trunks and 12 tusks
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	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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6 trunks and 3 tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:o2:1
# text = 6 trunks and 3 tusks
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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3 trunks and 6 tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:o3:1
# text = 3 trunks and 6 tusks
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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3 trunks and 3 tusks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t5:o4:1
# text = 3 trunks and 3 tusks
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	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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