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description: Count them: a beach has 4 kids, and each finds 3 shark teeth. How many teeth in all? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 3 · ★ · Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present

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Count them: a beach has 4 kids, and each finds 3 shark teeth. How many teeth in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, beach, each · **What happens:** count, have, find · **To what, where:** them, 4 kids, 3 shark teeth

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a beach has 4 kids, and each finds 3 shark teeth.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3:1
# text = Count them: a beach has 4 kids, and each finds 3 shark teeth.
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
12	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a beach | 4 kids |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient |
| 3 | **find** | present | each | 3 shark teeth |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic |

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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 teeth in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3:2
# text = How many teeth in all?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3:o3:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t3: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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