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title: «2 macaws and the dog in the garden, how many tails, and no trunks» — Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long… · tree and pragmatics
description: «2 macaws and the dog in the garden, how many tails, and no trunks» Test 4 · ★ of lesson 206 «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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 4 · ★ · Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives

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«2 macaws and the dog in the garden, how many tails, and no trunks»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 206 «Parrots: talkers, nutcrackers and long lives» 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/206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t4:1
# text = «2 macaws and the dog in the garden, how many tails, and no trunks»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	macaws	macaw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	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	garden	garden	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	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	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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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t4:o1:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t4:o2:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t4:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:206-parrots-talkers-nutcrackers-and-long-lives:t4:o4:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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