--- title: Count them: a giraffe and a mouse stand side by side. How many neck… — Evolution: why giraffes really have lo… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a giraffe and a mouse stand side by side. How many neck bones do they have together? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 278 «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks/t2/) [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/) / [Evolution: why giraffes really have lo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★★ · Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks Count them: a giraffe and a mouse stand side by side. How many neck bones do they have together? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, giraffe, many neck bones · **What happens:** count, stand, have · **To what, where:** them, side This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 278 «Evolution: why giraffes really have long necks» 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/278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a giraffe and a mouse stand side by side. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:1 # text = Count them: a giraffe and a mouse stand side by side. 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 10 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . 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 | **stand** | present | a giraffe and a mouse | side | | | | by side | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme by side=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 neck bones do they have together? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:2 # text = How many neck bones do they have together? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · do-support | many neck bones | | | | | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:o1:1 # text = 7 1 7 7 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} 14 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:o2:1 # text = 14 1 14 14 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:o3:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 21 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks:t2:o4:1 # text = 21 1 21 21 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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