--- title: Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. How many legs, tails and wh… — Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. How many legs, tails and whiskers if each has 24? Test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/t6/) [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/) / [Cats through history: Egypt's sacred c…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T… Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. How many legs, tails and whiskers if each has 24? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 4 cats, many legs · **What happens:** count, sit, have · **To what, where:** them, deck, 24 This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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/294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry/#t6). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:1 # text = Count them: 4 cats sit on a ship's deck. 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 : _ 1 punct _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 cats cat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 sit sit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 deck deck NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . 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 | **sit** | present | 4 cats | | | a ship's deck | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location | 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 legs, tails and whiskers if each has 24? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:2 # text = How many legs, tails and whiskers if each has 24? 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 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 nsubj _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | many legs and tails and whiskers | 24 | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 24=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:o1:1 # text = 12 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers 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 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 96 96 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 16 legs, 4 tails and 24 whiskers ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:o2:1 # text = 16 legs, 4 tails and 24 whiskers 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 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 16 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:o3:1 # text = 16 legs, 4 tails and 96 whiskers 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 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 96 96 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 16 legs, 8 tails and 96 whiskers ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:294-cats-through-history-egypt-s-sacred-cats-ship-cats-and-tom-and-jerry:t6:o4:1 # text = 16 legs, 8 tails and 96 whiskers 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 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 96 96 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 whiskers whisker NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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