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title: Count them: on a hike Sam spots 4 poison ivy leaves, each one «leave… — Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: on a hike Sam spots 4 poison ivy leaves, each one «leaves of three». How many leaflets is that? Test 8 of lesson 255 «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 8 · Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying s…

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Count them: on a hike Sam spots 4 poison ivy leaves, each one «leaves of three». How many leaflets is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Sam, many leaflets · **What happens:** count, spot, be · **To what, where:** them, 4 ivy leaves, hike

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This is test 8 of lesson 255 «Plants deeper: poisonous and stinging plants and staying safe» 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/255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: on a hike Sam spots 4 poison ivy leaves, each one «leaves of three».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:1
# text = Count them: on a hike Sam spots 4 poison ivy leaves, each one «leaves of three».
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	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hike	hike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	spots	spot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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 | **spot** | present | Sam | 4 ivy leaves |  | a hike |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Destination |

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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 leaflets is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:2
# text = How many leaflets is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leaflets	leaflet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many leaflets |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:o1:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:o2:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:255-plants-deeper-poisonous-and-stinging-plants-and-staying-safe:t8:o4:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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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