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title: Count them: how many trunks, ears and legs does one elephant have al… — Elephants: the trunk and everything it… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: how many trunks, ears and legs does one elephant have altogether? Test 2 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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 · Elephants: the trunk and everything it does

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Count them: how many trunks, ears and legs does one elephant have altogether?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many trunks · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 2 of lesson 21 «Elephants: the trunk and everything it does» 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/21-elephants-the-trunk/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t2:1
# text = Count them: how many trunks, ears and legs does one elephant have altogether?
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	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
15	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 | **have** | present · do-support | many trunks and ears and legs |  |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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5: one trunk, two ears and two legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t2:o1:1
# text = 5: one trunk, two ears and two legs
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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6: one trunk, one ear and four legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t2:o2:1
# text = 6: one trunk, one ear and four legs
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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8: two trunks, two ears and four legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t2:o3:1
# text = 8: two trunks, two ears and four legs
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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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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7: one trunk, two ears and four legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:21-elephants-the-trunk:t2:o4:1
# text = 7: one trunk, two ears and four legs
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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

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