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title: Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs.… — Goldfish and pond fish: the three-seco… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs. How many legs in total, the lifted leg too? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth

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Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs. How many legs in total, the lifted leg too?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, heron · **What happens:** count, stand, lift · **To what, where:** them, one leg

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 204 «Goldfish and pond fish: the three-second memory myth» 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/204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11:1
# text = Count them: a heron stands on one leg next to the pond with 3 frogs.
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	heron	heron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	next	next	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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 | **stand** | present | a heron |  |  | one leg |  | to the pond with 3 frogs | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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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 in total, the lifted leg too?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11:2
# text = How many legs in total, the lifted leg too?
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	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 | **lift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11: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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13

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11:o2:1
# text = 13
1	13	13	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:204-goldfish-and-pond-fish-the-three-second-memory-myth:t11:o4:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	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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