--- title: «3 ostriches in the field. how many legs? and don't say 12» — Defences: tricks and myths: playing de… · tree and pragmatics description: «3 ostriches in the field. how many legs? and don't say 12» Test 8 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches/t8/) [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/) / [Defences: tricks and myths: playing de…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches/) / t8 # Test 8 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,… «3 ostriches in the field. how many legs? and don't say 12» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** not say · **To what, where:** 12 · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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/249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t8:1 # text = «3 ostriches in the field. how many legs? and don't say 12» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 ostriches ostrich NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 16 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | 12 | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 12=Topic | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t8:o1:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t8:o2:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t8:o3:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t8:o4:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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