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title: Count them: 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs share a plain. How many legs… — Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs share a plain. How many legs in all? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

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Count them: 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs share a plain. How many legs in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 5 lionesses · **What happens:** count, share · **To what, where:** them, plain

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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/240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs share a plain.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:1
# text = Count them: 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs share a plain.
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	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | **share** | present | 5 lionesses and 4 wild dogs | a plain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:2
# text = How many legs in all?
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	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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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18 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:o1:1
# text = 18 legs
1	18	18	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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40 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:o2:1
# text = 40 legs
1	40	40	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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32 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:o3:1
# text = 32 legs
1	32	32	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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36 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together:t10:o4:1
# text = 36 legs
1	36	36	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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