--- title: Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. How many blowholes, an… — Echolocation in the sea and in people:… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. How many blowholes, and how many tails? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/t10/) [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/) / [Echolocation in the sea and in people:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s… Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. How many blowholes, and how many tails? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 3 dolphins · **What happens:** count, swim · **To what, where:** them This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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/230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:1 # text = Count them: 3 dolphins and 2 orcas swim past. 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 : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 orcas orca NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 past past ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . 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 | **swim** | present | 3 dolphins and 2 orcas | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 blowholes, and how many tails? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:2 # text = How many blowholes, and how many tails? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 3 blowholes and 5 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:o1:1 # text = 3 blowholes and 5 tails 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 10 blowholes and 5 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:o2:1 # text = 10 blowholes and 5 tails 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 5 blowholes and 10 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:o3:1 # text = 5 blowholes and 10 tails 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 5 blowholes and 5 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:230-echolocation-in-the-sea-and-in-people-dolphins-whales-swiftlets-and-clicking-humans:t10:o4:1 # text = 5 blowholes and 5 tails 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail 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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