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title: Count them: Tom the cat, Jerry the mouse and Tweety the canary are a… — Cartoon pets and animal myths put right · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: Tom the cat, Jerry the mouse and Tweety the canary are all on the kitchen floor, walking like real animals. How many legs? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

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Count them: Tom the cat, Jerry the mouse and Tweety the canary are all on the kitchen floor, walking like real animals. How many legs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Tom · **What happens:** count, be, walk · **To what, where:** them, kitchen floor

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: Tom the cat, Jerry the mouse and Tweety the canary are all on the kitchen floor, walking like real animals.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:1
# text = Count them: Tom the cat, Jerry the mouse and Tweety the canary are all on the kitchen floor, walking like real animals.
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	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Jerry	Jerry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Tweety	Tweety	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **is** | present | Tom and Jerry and Tweety |  |  | the kitchen floor |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like real animals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many legs?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:2
# text = How many legs?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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6 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:o1:1
# text = 6 legs
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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12 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:o2:1
# text = 12 legs
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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8 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:o3:1
# text = 8 legs
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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10 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right:t9:o4:1
# text = 10 legs
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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