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title: «3 ostriches, how many toes? they got 2 on each foot btw» — Record-breakers: the biggest and the s… · tree and pragmatics
description: «3 ostriches, how many toes? they got 2 on each foot btw» Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

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«3 ostriches, how many toes? they got 2 on each foot btw»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 3 ostriches · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** 2, foot

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t3:1
# text = «3 ostriches, how many toes? they got 2 on each foot btw»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	btw	btw	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past | 3 ostriches and many toes | 2 |  | each foot |  | btw *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent 2=Theme on foot=Source |

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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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30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t3:o1:1
# text = 30
1	30	30	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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t3: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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t3:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t3: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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