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title: «3 robins, 2 blackbirds n the cat watching em, how many legs» — Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits… · tree and pragmatics
description: «3 robins, 2 blackbirds n the cat watching em, how many legs» Test 1 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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 1 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

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«3 robins, 2 blackbirds n the cat watching em, how many legs»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cat · **What happens:** watch · **To what, where:** em

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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/216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t1:1
# text = «3 robins, 2 blackbirds n the cat watching em, how many legs»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	n	n	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	em	em	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** *in a quote* | gerund | the cat *not said here* | em and many legs |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent em=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 {#o1}

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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t1:o1:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t1:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t1: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:216-garden-birds-robins-blackbirds-tits-and-feeders:t1: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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