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title: «spotted 3 tigers swimming in the Sundarbans, how many legs n tails… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudski… · tree and pragmatics
description: «spotted 3 tigers swimming in the Sundarbans, how many legs n tails altogether» Test 6 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish an…

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«spotted 3 tigers swimming in the Sundarbans, how many legs n tails altogether»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 3 tigers, many legs · **What happens:** spot, swim, n · **To what, where:** 3 tigers, Sundarbans, tails

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t6:1
# text = «spotted 3 tigers swimming in the Sundarbans, how many legs n tails altogether»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	spotted	spot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Sundarbans	Sundarban	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	n	n	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** *in a quote* | past |  |  | 3 tigers |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tiger=Destination |
| 2 | **swim** *in a quote* | gerund | 3 tigers *not said here* |  |  | the Sundarbans |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sundarban=Trajectory |
| 3 | **n** *in a quote* | present | many legs | tails |  |  |  | altogether *property* | 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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15

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t6:o1:1
# text = 15
1	15	15	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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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t6:o2:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	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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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t6:o3:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers:t6:o4:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	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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