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title: «4 ring-tails sunbathing, how many striped tails is that, duh» — Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and t… · tree and pragmatics
description: «4 ring-tails sunbathing, how many striped tails is that, duh» Test 3 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

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«4 ring-tails sunbathing, how many striped tails is that, duh»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 4 ring tails · **What happens:** sunbathe, be · **To what, where:** many striped tails, that

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» 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/163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t3:1
# text = «4 ring-tails sunbathing, how many striped tails is that, duh»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sunbathing	sunbathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	striped	striped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sunbathe** *in a quote* | gerund | 4 ring tails | many striped tails |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t3:o1:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:163-madagascar-lemurs-of-every-kind-and-the-fossa:t3:o4:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	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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