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description: Count them: 4 puppies at puppy class each get 3 treats. How many treats is that? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 195 «Training a dog with rewards and patience» 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 9 · ★ · Training a dog with rewards and patience

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Count them: 4 puppies at puppy class each get 3 treats. How many treats is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 4 puppies, many treats · **What happens:** count, get, be · **To what, where:** them, 3 treats

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 195 «Training a dog with rewards and patience» 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/195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: 4 puppies at puppy class each get 3 treats.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9:1
# text = Count them: 4 puppies at puppy class each get 3 treats.
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	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	puppies	puppy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	puppy	puppy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | **get** | present | 4 puppies at puppy class | 3 treats |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treat=Stimulus |

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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 treats is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9:2
# text = How many treats is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treats	treat	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 treats |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9:o1:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	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:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9: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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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:195-training-a-dog-with-rewards-and-patience:t9:o4:1
# 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.

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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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