--- title: Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whale… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once. Sperm whales have one blowhole. How many blowholes are open? Test 1 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/t1/) [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/) / [Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/) / t1 # Test 1 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr… Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once. Sperm whales have one blowhole. How many blowholes are open? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, watching boat, 2 sperm whales, Sperm whales, many blowholes · **What happens:** count, watch, see, blow, have, be · **To what, where:** them, 3 humpbacks, one blowhole This is test 1 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:1 # text = Count them: a whale-watching boat sees 3 humpbacks and 2 sperm whales blow at once. 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 watching watch VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 humpbacks humpback NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 14 sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 blow blow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . 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 | **watch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **see** | present | a watching boat | 3 humpbacks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer humpback=Stimulus | | 4 | **blow** | present | 2 sperm whales | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | 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:* Sperm whales have one blowhole. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:2 # text = Sperm whales have one blowhole. 1 Sperm sperm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 blowhole blowhole NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Sperm whales | one blowhole | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blowhole=Patient | *Sentence 3:* How many blowholes are open? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:3 # text = How many blowholes are open? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blowholes blowhole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many blowholes | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:o1:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:o2:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 8 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:o3:1 # text = 8 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t1:o4:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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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