--- title: Count them: Tom chases Jerry and two other mice. How many tails are… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: Tom chases Jerry and two other mice. How many tails are running? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 198 «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never… Count them: Tom chases Jerry and two other mice. How many tails are running? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Tom, many tails · **What happens:** count, chase, run · **To what, where:** them, Jerry This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 198 «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» 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/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: Tom chases Jerry and two other mice. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:1 # text = Count them: Tom chases Jerry and two other mice. 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 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 chases chase VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 6 Jerry Jerry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **chase** | present | Tom | Jerry and two other mice | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jerry=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many tails are running? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:2 # text = How many tails are running? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present · progressive | many tails | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:o1:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:o2:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:o3:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry:t9:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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