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title: Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lan… — Sharks by kind, small and strange: wal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark. If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» of the biology course of Mo
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# Test 9 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

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Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark. If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, whale shark, lanternshark · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** it, 20 centimetres, whale shark

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:1
# text = Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lanternshark	lanternshark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	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* | it |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | a whale shark |  |  |  |  | as a dwarf lanternshark; long *property* | tree rules |

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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:* If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:2
# text = If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lanternshark	lanternshark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a lanternshark | 20 centimetres and the whale shark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a lanternshark *not said here* | the whale shark |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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About 1.2 metres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:o1:1
# text = About 1.2 metres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1.2	1.2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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About 80 centimetres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:o2:1
# text = About 80 centimetres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	80	80	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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About 12 metres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:o3:1
# text = About 12 metres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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About 60 metres long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks:t9:o4:1
# text = About 60 metres long
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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