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title: «3 gerbils and a hamster in the room, how many legs altogether» — Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice · tree and pragmatics
description: «3 gerbils and a hamster in the room, how many legs altogether» Test 2 · ★ of lesson 202 «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 2 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

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«3 gerbils and a hamster in the room, how many legs altogether»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 202 «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice:t2:1
# text = «3 gerbils and a hamster in the room, how many legs altogether»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	gerbils	gerbil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice:t2:o1:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice:t2: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice:t2:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice:t2:o4:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	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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