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title: Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparr… — The garden in winter: bare trees, trac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows. How many feet made them? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 9 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

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Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows. How many feet made them?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many feet · **What happens:** count, find, make · **To what, where:** them, tracks, snow

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:1
# text = Count them: in the snow you find tracks of 1 fox, 2 cats and 3 sparrows.
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	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
9	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 | **find** | present | you | tracks of 1 fox and 2 cats and 3 sparrows |  | the snow |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Topic |

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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 feet made them?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:2
# text = How many feet made them?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | many feet | tracks *= track* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:o1:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:o2:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:o3:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where:t9:o4:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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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