--- title: Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans gli… — The park pond through the year: ducks,… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide past. How many legs and how many beaks? Test 10 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/t10/) [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/) / [The park pond through the year: ducks,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/) / t10 # Test 10 · The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, drago… Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide past. How many legs and how many beaks? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, mallard, 2 swans · **What happens:** count, cross, glide · **To what, where:** them, path This is test 10 of lesson 337 «The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice» 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/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide past. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:1 # text = Count them: a mallard and 6 ducklings cross the path and 2 swans glide 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 : _ 9 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mallard mallard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 ducklings duckling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 cross cross VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 glide glide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 past past ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . 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 | **cross** | present | a mallard and 6 ducklings | the path | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Patient | | 3 | **glide** | present | 2 swans | | | | | past *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 legs and how many beaks? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:2 # text = How many legs and how many beaks? 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 _ 7 cc _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 18 legs and 7 beaks ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:o1:1 # text = 18 legs and 7 beaks 1 18 18 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 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 18 legs and 9 beaks ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:o2:1 # text = 18 legs and 9 beaks 1 18 18 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 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 36 legs and 9 beaks ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:o3:1 # text = 36 legs and 9 beaks 1 36 36 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 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 9 legs and 9 beaks ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice:t10:o4:1 # text = 9 legs and 9 beaks 1 9 9 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 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 beaks beak 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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