--- title: Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets a… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to s… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. How many big bones need jackets in all? Test 11 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Fossils: how a living thing turns to s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/) / t11 # Test 11 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig… Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. How many big bones need jackets in all? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, palaeontologist, many big bones · **What happens:** count, wrap, need · **To what, where:** them, 4 big bones, plaster jackets, jackets, all This is test 11 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» 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/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:1 # text = Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. 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 palaeontologist palaeontologist NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 wraps wrap VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 jackets jacket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 15 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ _ 16 wait wait NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 tomorrow tomorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **wrap** | present | a palaeontologist | 4 big bones | | plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in jacket=Destination | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many big bones need jackets in all? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:2 # text = How many big bones need jackets in all? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 jackets jacket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present | many big bones | jackets | | all | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot jacket=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:o1:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:o2:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:o3:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t11:o4:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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