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title: «12 flamingos standing on 1 leg each, how many legs in the water» — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocod… · tree and pragmatics
description: «12 flamingos standing on 1 leg each, how many legs in the water» Test 4 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

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«12 flamingos standing on 1 leg each, how many legs in the water»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 12 flamingos · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** each, 1 leg

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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/184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t4:1
# text = «12 flamingos standing on 1 leg each, how many legs in the water»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	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	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund | 12 flamingos and many legs in the water *not said here* | each |  | 1 leg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t4:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t4:o2:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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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36

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t4:o3:1
# text = 36
1	36	36	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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t4:o4:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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