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title: «4 chickens, 2 foxes sneaking round, count the tails» — Chickens: eggs, pecking order and livi… · tree and pragmatics
description: «4 chickens, 2 foxes sneaking round, count the tails» Test 3 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

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«4 chickens, 2 foxes sneaking round, count the tails»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 2 foxes, 4 chickens · **What happens:** sneak, count · **To what, where:** tails

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t3:1
# text = «4 chickens, 2 foxes sneaking round, count the tails»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneak** *in a quote* | gerund | 2 foxes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **count** *in a quote* | infinitive | 4 chickens and 2 foxes | the tails |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t3:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t3:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs:t3:o4:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	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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