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title: «2 fiddler crabs, each got 1 big claw n 1 small, how many small claws» — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski… · tree and pragmatics
description: «2 fiddler crabs, each got 1 big claw n 1 small, how many small claws» Test 5 · ★ of lesson 178 «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 5 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…

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«2 fiddler crabs, each got 1 big claw n 1 small, how many small claws»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 2 fiddler crabs · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** 1 big claw n

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 178 «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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/178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t5:1
# text = «2 fiddler crabs, each got 1 big claw n 1 small, how many small claws»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	claw	claw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	n	n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | 2 fiddler crabs | 1 big claw n |  |  |  | small *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent n=Beneficiary claw=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t5:o1:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t5:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t5:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t5:o4:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	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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**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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