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title: «sow had 11 piglets, sorry 12. how many tails with mum» — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: «sow had 11 piglets, sorry 12. how many tails with mum» Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 3 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

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«sow had 11 piglets, sorry 12. how many tails with mum»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sow · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** 11 piglets

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t3:1
# text = «sow had 11 piglets, sorry 12. how many tails with mum»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	piglets	piglet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sorry	sorry	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | sow | 11 piglets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t3:o1:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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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11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t3:o2:1
# text = 11
1	11	11	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:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t3: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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13

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t3:o4:1
# 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.

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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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