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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

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Count them: one elephant bird egg is like 150 hen's eggs. How many hen's eggs are 2 elephant bird eggs like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, one bird egg, eggs · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** them, 2 bird eggs

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: one elephant bird egg is like 150 hen's eggs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:1
# text = Count them: one elephant bird egg is like 150 hen's eggs.
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	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 | **is** | present | one bird egg |  |  |  |  | like 150 hen's eggs | tree rules |

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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 hen's eggs are 2 elephant bird eggs like?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:2
# text = How many hen's eggs are 2 elephant bird eggs like?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
8	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | many hen's eggs | 2 bird eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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152

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:o1:1
# text = 152
1	152	152	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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300

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:o2:1
# text = 300
1	300	300	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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75

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:o3:1
# text = 75
1	75	75	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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150

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t8:o4:1
# text = 150
1	150	150	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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