--- title: Count them: a mother opossum carries 7 babies on her back. How many… — Raccoons, opossums and skunks · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a mother opossum carries 7 babies on her back. How many tails are there altogether? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/t4/) [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/) / [Raccoons, opossums and skunks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks Count them: a mother opossum carries 7 babies on her back. How many tails are there altogether? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, mother opossum, many tails · **What happens:** count, carry, be · **To what, where:** them, 7 babies, back This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a mother opossum carries 7 babies on her back. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:1 # text = Count them: a mother opossum carries 7 babies on her back. 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 : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 opossum opossum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ 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 | **carry** | present | a mother opossum | 7 babies | | opossum's back | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | 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 tails are there altogether? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:2 # text = How many tails are there altogether? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 6 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many tails | | | | | altogether, there *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 14 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:o1:1 # text = 14 1 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:o2:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:o3:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 1 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks:t4:o4:1 # text = 1 1 1 1 NUM LS 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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