--- title: Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. How many flippers and how many… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. How many flippers and how many back legs do they have together? Test 2 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 the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [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/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr… Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. How many flippers and how many back legs do they have together? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, 4 blue whales, many flippers · **What happens:** count, swim, have · **To what, where:** them This is test 2 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:1 # text = Count them: 4 blue whales swim past. 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 : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 whales whale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 past past ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . 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 | **swim** | present | 4 blue whales | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 flippers and how many back legs do they have together? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:2 # text = How many flippers and how many back legs do they have together? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 back back ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · do-support | many flippers and many back legs | | | | | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 8 flippers and no back legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:o1:1 # text = 8 flippers and no back legs 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 4 flippers and 4 back legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:o2:1 # text = 4 flippers and 4 back legs 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 8 flippers and 8 back legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:o3:1 # text = 8 flippers and 8 back legs 1 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 16 flippers and no back legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t2:o4:1 # text = 16 flippers and no back legs 1 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 flippers flipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 5 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 legs leg 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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