--- title: Count them: 3 cats and 1 dog sit by the door. How many tails and how… — Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 3 cats and 1 dog sit by the door. How many tails and how many ears? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/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/) / [Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turt…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee… Count them: 3 cats and 1 dog sit by the door. How many tails and how many ears? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 3 cats · **What happens:** count, sit · **To what, where:** them This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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/232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 3 cats and 1 dog sit by the door. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:1 # text = Count them: 3 cats and 1 dog sit by the door. 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 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 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 | **sit** | infinitive | 3 cats and 1 dog | | | | | by the door | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location | 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 and how many ears? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:2 # text = How many tails and how many ears? 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 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 8 tails and 8 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:o1:1 # text = 8 tails and 8 ears 1 8 8 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 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 4 tails and 8 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:o2:1 # text = 4 tails and 8 ears 1 4 4 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 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 4 tails and 4 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:o3:1 # text = 4 tails and 4 ears 1 4 4 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 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 tails and 6 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:232-hidden-senses-magnetic-birds-ultraviolet-bees-heat-seeing-snakes:t10:o4:1 # text = 3 tails and 6 ears 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 ears ear 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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