--- title: Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. How ma… — Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. How many ears is that? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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 wro --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Elephants: families, tusks, ears and m…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. How many ears is that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, herd, many ears · **What happens:** count, have, be · **To what, where:** them, five adult elephants This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 22 «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:1 # text = Count them: a herd has five adult elephants and three calves. 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 calves calf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | a herd | five adult elephants and three calves | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many ears is that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:2 # text = How many ears is that? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many ears | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:o1:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 32 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:o2:1 # text = 32 1 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 16 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:o3:1 # text = 16 1 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory:t2:o4:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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