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title: Count them: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forwar… — Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vul… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forward on each. How many toes point back in all? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 324 «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures

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Count them: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forward on each. How many toes point back in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, osprey, many toes · **What happens:** count, hold, point back · **To what, where:** them, fish, feet

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 324 «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forward on each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:1
# text = Count them: an osprey holds a fish in both feet with two toes forward on each.
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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	osprey	osprey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	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* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present | a osprey | a fish |  | both feet |  | with two toes; on each; forward *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in foot=Location |

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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 toes point back in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:2
# text = How many toes point back in all?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point back** | present | many toes |  |  |  |  | in all | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in all=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:o1:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:o2:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:o3:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures:t4:o4:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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