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# Test 8 · ★ · Working dogs: guide, sniffer, sheep, rescue and helper dogs

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Count them: 8 huskies and one driver at the finish line. How many ears are there, dogs and driver together?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: 8 huskies and one driver at the finish line.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:1
# text = Count them: 8 huskies and one driver at the finish line.
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	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	huskies	husky	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	finish	finish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	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* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 ears are there, dogs and driver together?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:2
# text = How many ears are there, dogs and driver together?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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36

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:o3:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	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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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:196-working-dogs-guide-sniffer-sheep-rescue-and-helper-dogs:t8:o4:1
# 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.

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