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# Test 9 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

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Count them: a pod of 5 pilot whales strands on a beach. How many tails and how many flippers do the rescuers keep wet, if each whale has 2 flippers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many tails, rescuers, whale · **What happens:** count, do, keep, have · **To what, where:** them, 2 flippers

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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/296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a pod of 5 pilot whales strands on a beach.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:1
# text = Count them: a pod of 5 pilot whales strands on a beach.
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	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	pod	pod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	strands	strand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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* |  |  |  | a pod of 5 pilot whales and strands on a beach *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 tails and how many flippers do the rescuers keep wet, if each whale has 2 flippers?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:2
# text = How many tails and how many flippers do the rescuers keep wet, if each whale has 2 flippers?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many tails and many flippers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the rescuers |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | each whale | 2 flippers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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5 tails and 5 flippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:o1:1
# text = 5 tails and 5 flippers
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	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	flippers	flipper	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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5 tails and 20 flippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:o2:1
# text = 5 tails and 20 flippers
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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5 tails and 10 flippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:o3:1
# text = 5 tails and 10 flippers
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	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	flippers	flipper	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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10 tails and 10 flippers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t9:o4:1
# text = 10 tails and 10 flippers
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	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	flippers	flipper	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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