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description: Count them: a guide dog leads a blind man, and a hearing dog walks beside a deaf woman. How many legs altogether? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 292 «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today

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Count them: a guide dog leads a blind man, and a hearing dog walks beside a deaf woman. How many legs altogether?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, guide dog, hearing dog · **What happens:** count, lead, walk · **To what, where:** them, blind man

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 292 «Dogs from wolves to best friends: living with dogs today» 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/292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a guide dog leads a blind man, and a hearing dog walks beside a deaf woman.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:1
# text = Count them: a guide dog leads a blind man, and a hearing dog walks beside a deaf woman.
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	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 | **lead** | present | a guide dog | a blind man |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | present | a hearing dog |  |  |  |  | beside a deaf woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside woman=Trajectory |

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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 altogether?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:2
# text = How many legs altogether?
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	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:o1:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:o2:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:o3:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:292-dogs-from-wolves-to-best-friends-living-with-dogs-today:t6:o4:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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