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title: Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs. How… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs. How many legs, ears and noses are there? Test 7 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 7 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

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Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs. How many legs, ears and noses are there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ranger team, many legs · **What happens:** count, walk, be · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 7 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:1
# text = Count them: a ranger team of 4 people walks with 2 sniffer dogs.
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	ranger	ranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	sniffer	sniffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | **walk** | present | a ranger team of 4 people |  |  |  |  | with 2 sniffer dogs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, ears and noses are there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:2
# text = How many legs, ears and noses are there?
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	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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12 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:o1:1
# text = 12 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	noses	nose	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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16 legs, 12 ears and 4 noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:o2:1
# text = 16 legs, 12 ears and 4 noses
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	noses	nose	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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16 legs, 6 ears and 6 noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:o3:1
# text = 16 legs, 6 ears and 6 noses
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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16 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t7:o4:1
# text = 16 legs, 12 ears and 6 noses
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	noses	nose	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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