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description: Count them: a museum has 3 python skeletons. How many legs and how many little leg spurs? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 321 «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 2 · ★ · Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they…

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Count them: a museum has 3 python skeletons. How many legs and how many little leg spurs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, museum · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them, 3 python skeletons

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 321 «Big snakes: pythons, boas and anacondas, and how big they really get» 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/321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a museum has 3 python skeletons.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:1
# text = Count them: a museum has 3 python skeletons.
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	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	python	python	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a museum | 3 python skeletons |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skeleton=Patient |

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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 legs and how many little leg spurs?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:2
# text = How many legs and how many little leg spurs?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	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 {#o1}

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6 legs and 6 spurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:o1:1
# text = 6 legs and 6 spurs
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No legs, but 6 spurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:o2:1
# text = No legs, but 6 spurs
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No legs and no spurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:o3:1
# text = No legs and no spurs
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	spurs	spur	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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12 legs and no spurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:321-big-snakes-pythons-boas-and-anacondas-and-how-big-they-really-get:t2:o4:1
# text = 12 legs and no spurs
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	spurs	spur	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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