--- title: 3 hippos walk along the riverbed. How many ears and how many tails? — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes… · tree and pragmatics description: 3 hippos walk along the riverbed. How many ears and how many tails? Test 5 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/160-the-congo-river/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/160-the-congo-river/) / t5 # Test 5 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an… 3 hippos walk along the riverbed. How many ears and how many tails? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 3 hippos · **What happens:** walk · **To what, where:** riverbed This is test 5 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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/160-the-congo-river/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* 3 hippos walk along the riverbed. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:1 # text = 3 hippos walk along the riverbed. 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 along along ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 riverbed riverbed NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | present | 3 hippos | | | the riverbed | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along riverbed=Trajectory | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many ears and how many tails? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:2 # text = How many ears and how many tails? 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 0 root _ _ 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 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 6 ears and 6 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:o1:1 # text = 6 ears and 6 tails 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear 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 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 3 ears and 6 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:o2:1 # text = 3 ears and 6 tails 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear 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 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 ears and 3 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:o3:1 # text = 12 ears and 3 tails 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear 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 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 6 ears and 3 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t5:o4:1 # text = 6 ears and 3 tails 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear 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 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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