--- title: Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. How many tails, and how… — Cat body language and cat myths: milk,… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. How many tails, and how many happy hellos? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 199 «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/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/) / [Cat body language and cat myths: milk,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and land… Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. How many tails, and how many happy hellos? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, four cats · **What happens:** count, walk in · **To what, where:** them This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 199 «Cat body language and cat myths: milk, nine lives and landing on their feet» 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/199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:1 # text = Count them: four cats walk in with tails up. 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 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 in in ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ 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 | **walk in** | present | four cats | | | | | with tails | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, and how many happy hellos? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:2 # text = How many tails, and how many happy hellos? 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 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hellos hello NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 4 tails and 16 hellos ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:o1:1 # text = 4 tails and 16 hellos 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hellos hello NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 8 tails and 4 hellos ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:o2:1 # text = 8 tails and 4 hellos 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hellos hello NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 4 tails and 8 hellos ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:o3:1 # text = 4 tails and 8 hellos 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hellos hello NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 4 tails and 4 hellos ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:199-cat-body-language-and-cat-myths-milk-nine-lives-and-landing-on-their-feet:t9:o4:1 # text = 4 tails and 4 hellos 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 hellos hello NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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