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# Test 7 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

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Count them: a sled has 6 huskies pulling it. How many legs are pulling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sled, 6 huskies, many legs · **What happens:** count, have, pull · **To what, where:** them, 6 huskies, sled

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 196 «Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs» 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/196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a sled has 6 huskies pulling it.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7:1
# text = Count them: a sled has 6 huskies pulling it.
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	huskies	husky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a sled | 6 huskies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husky=Patient |
| 3 | **pull** | gerund | 6 huskies *not said here* | sled |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 legs are pulling?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7:2
# text = How many legs are pulling?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present · progressive | many legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t7: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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