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title: Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table. How many drumsti… — Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeoptery… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table. How many drumsticks and wishbones are there? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 4 · ★ · Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on…

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Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table. How many drumsticks and wishbones are there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Mum, many drumsticks · **What happens:** count, put, be · **To what, where:** them, 2 roast chickens, table

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 269 «Feathered dinosaurs: from Archaeopteryx to the chicken on your plate» 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/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:1
# text = Count them: Mum puts 2 roast chickens on the table.
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	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	roast	roast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 | **put** | present | Mum | 2 roast chickens |  | the table |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme on table=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 drumsticks and wishbones are there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:2
# text = How many drumsticks and wishbones are there?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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2 drumsticks and 4 wishbones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:o1:1
# text = 2 drumsticks and 4 wishbones
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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4 drumsticks and 2 wishbones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:o2:1
# text = 4 drumsticks and 2 wishbones
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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8 drumsticks and 2 wishbones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:o3:1
# text = 8 drumsticks and 2 wishbones
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4 drumsticks and 4 wishbones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken:t4:o4:1
# text = 4 drumsticks and 4 wishbones
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	drumsticks	drumstick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wishbones	wishbone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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