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# Test 9 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

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Count them: a stork pair on a chimney has 3 chicks. How many legs and wings are there in the nest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, stork pair, many legs · **What happens:** count, have, be · **To what, where:** them, 3 chicks, nest

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a stork pair on a chimney has 3 chicks.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:1
# text = Count them: a stork pair on a chimney has 3 chicks.
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	:	_	10	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 stork pair on a chimney | 3 chicks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Patient |

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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 legs and wings are there in the nest?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:2
# text = How many legs and wings are there in the nest?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many legs and wings |  |  | the nest |  | there *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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10 legs and 10 wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:o1:1
# text = 10 legs and 10 wings
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10 legs and 5 wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:o2:1
# text = 10 legs and 5 wings
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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6 legs and 6 wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:o3:1
# text = 6 legs and 6 wings
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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20 legs and 10 wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t9:o4:1
# text = 20 legs and 10 wings
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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