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title: Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and… — Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from each. How many bits does she pick? Test 2 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 2 · Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats

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Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from each. How many bits does she pick?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, tea picker, many bits · **What happens:** count, pick, take · **To what, where:** them, two leaves, each

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This is test 2 of lesson 347 «Sugar, chocolate, tea and coffee: the plants behind treats» 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/347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2:1
# text = Count them: a tea picker picks from 4 shoots, taking two leaves and a bud from 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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	picker	picker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bud	bud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	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 | **pick** | present | a tea picker |  |  |  |  | from 4 shoots | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from shoot=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | a tea picker *not said here* | two leaves and a bud |  | each |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme from each=Initial\_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 bits does she pick?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2:2
# text = How many bits does she pick?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | present · do-support | many bits |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2:o3:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:347-sugar-chocolate-tea-and-coffee-the-plants-behind-treats:t2: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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