--- title: Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinos… — Fossils: how a living thing turns to s… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. How many toe marks are there in all? Test 4 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 and pragmati --- [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/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig… Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. How many toe marks are there in all? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, museum, many toe marks · **What happens:** count, show, be · **To what, where:** them, 3 fossil footprints, all This is test 4 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:1 # text = Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. 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 museum museum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 footprints footprint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 legged legged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 dinosaur dinosaur NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 appos _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . 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 | **show** | present | a museum | 3 fossil footprints of a legged dinosaur | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent footprint=Recipient | 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 toe marks are there in all? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:2 # text = How many toe marks are there in all? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many toe marks | | | all | | there *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:o1:1 # 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:o2:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:o3:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t4:o4:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD 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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