--- title: «4 lizards lost their tails, no sorry 3 lost them. how many still go… — Defences: tricks and myths: playing de… · tree and pragmatics description: «4 lizards lost their tails, no sorry 3 lost them. how many still got tails if there's 7 lizards» Test 9 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 prag --- [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/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/) / [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/) / t9 # Test 9 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,… «4 lizards lost their tails, no sorry 3 lost them. how many still got tails if there's 7 lizards» **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 4 lizards, sorry 3, many, 7 lizards · **What happens:** lose, get, be · **To what, where:** tails This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t9:1 # text = «4 lizards lost their tails, no sorry 3 lost them. how many still got tails if there's 7 lizards» 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 5 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 9 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 16 still still ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 22 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 lizards lizard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | 4 lizards | lizards's tails | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality | | 2 | **lose** *in a quote* | past | no sorry 3 | tails *= tail* | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | many | tails | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus | | 4 | **does** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | 7 lizards | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t9:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t9:o2:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t9:o3:1 # 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:249-defences-tricks-and-myths-playing-dead-dropping-tails-ink-and-ostriches:t9:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 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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