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title: Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhi… — Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos. How many trunks, tails and front horns in all? Test 3 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Test 3 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

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Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos. How many trunks, tails and front horns in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cave painting · **What happens:** count, show · **To what, where:** them, 3 woolly mammoths

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This is test 3 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:1
# text = Count them: a cave painting shows 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos.
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	painting	painting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | **show** | present | a cave painting | 3 woolly mammoths and 2 woolly rhinos |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mammoth=Recipient |

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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 trunks, tails and front horns in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:2
# text = How many trunks, tails and front horns in all?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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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3 trunks, 5 tails and 5 front horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:o1:1
# text = 3 trunks, 5 tails and 5 front horns
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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3 trunks, 3 tails and 3 front horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:o2:1
# text = 3 trunks, 3 tails and 3 front horns
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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3 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:o3:1
# text = 3 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horns	horn	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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5 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants:t3:o4:1
# text = 5 trunks, 5 tails and 2 front horns
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	horns	horn	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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