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title: A dwarf crocodile and 2 forest buffalo stand near a swamp. How many… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes… · tree and pragmatics
description: A dwarf crocodile and 2 forest buffalo stand near a swamp. How many legs and horns? Test 6 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 opti
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# Test 6 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an…

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A dwarf crocodile and 2 forest buffalo stand near a swamp. How many legs and horns?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dwarf crocodile · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** swamp

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A dwarf crocodile and 2 forest buffalo stand near a swamp.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:1
# text = A dwarf crocodile and 2 forest buffalo stand near a swamp.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | a dwarf crocodile and forest buffalo |  |  | a swamp |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near swamp=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 and horns?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:2
# text = How many legs and horns?
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	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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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8 legs and 2 horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:o1:1
# text = 8 legs and 2 horns
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horns	horn	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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10 legs and 4 horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:o2:1
# text = 10 legs and 4 horns
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horns	horn	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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12 legs and 4 horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:o3:1
# text = 12 legs and 4 horns
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	horns	horn	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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12 legs and 6 horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t6:o4:1
# text = 12 legs and 6 horns
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	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	horns	horn	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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