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title: Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times eac… — How a dog thinks: a world of smells, s… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each. How many twitches is that? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 11 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

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Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each. How many twitches is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dream, four paws, dog, many twitches · **What happens:** count, make, twitch, dream, be · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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/193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11:1
# text = Count them: a dog's dream makes all four paws twitch three times each.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	twitch	twitch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present | a dog's dream |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **twitch** | present | all four paws |  |  |  | time |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dream** |  | a dog |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many twitches is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11:2
# text = How many twitches is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	twitches	twitch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many twitches |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11: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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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces:t11:o4:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	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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