--- title: «there's 3 rats in the alley, how many tails n legs» — Rats and mice in the city, and the ele… · tree and pragmatics description: «there's 3 rats in the alley, how many tails n legs» Test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/t1/) [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/) / [Rats and mice in the city, and the ele…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth «there's 3 rats in the alley, how many tails n legs» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 3 rats, many tails · **What happens:** be, n · **To what, where:** legs This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 222 «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth:t1:1 # text = «there's 3 rats in the alley, how many tails n legs» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 rats rat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 alley alley NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 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 13 nsubj _ _ 13 n n VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | 3 rats in the alley | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **n** *in a quote* | present | many tails | legs | | | | | tree rules | 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} 3 tails and 6 legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth:t1:o1:1 # text = 3 tails and 6 legs 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 6 tails and 12 legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth:t1:o2:1 # text = 6 tails and 12 legs 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 3 tails and 12 legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth:t1:o3:1 # text = 3 tails and 12 legs 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 tails and 9 legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth:t1:o4:1 # text = 3 tails and 9 legs 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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