--- title: Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. How many… — Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. How many ears? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the 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 choic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/t9/) [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/) / [Animal minds: elephants' memory, feeli…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. How many ears? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 4 elephants · **What happens:** count, stand · **To what, where:** them This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the 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/236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:1 # text = Count them: 4 elephants and 3 people stand by a water hole. 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 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . 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 | **stand** | present | 4 elephants and 3 people | | | | | by a water hole | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by hole=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 ears? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:2 # text = How many ears? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 8 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:o1:1 # text = 8 ears 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 7 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:o2:1 # text = 7 ears 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 16 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:o3:1 # text = 16 ears 1 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 14 ears ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:236-animal-minds-elephants-memory-feelings-and-the-mouse-myth:t9:o4:1 # text = 14 ears 1 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 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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