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description: Count them: a shark loses 2 teeth a week. About how many in a year of 52 weeks? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead

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Count them: a shark loses 2 teeth a week. About how many in a year of 52 weeks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, shark · **What happens:** count, lose · **To what, where:** them, 2 teeth

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a shark loses 2 teeth a week.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:1
# text = Count them: a shark loses 2 teeth a week.
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	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 | **lose** | present | a shark | 2 teeth |  |  | week |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |

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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:* About how many in a year of 52 weeks?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:2
# text = About how many in a year of 52 weeks?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	52	52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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104

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:o1:1
# text = 104
1	104	104	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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54

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:o2:1
# text = 54
1	54	54	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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26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:o3:1
# text = 26
1	26	26	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 {#o4}

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520

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t3:o4:1
# text = 520
1	520	520	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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