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title: Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows. How many tails, and ho… — Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hoo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows. How many tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and…

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Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows. How many tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, farmer, many tails · **What happens:** count, have, stand on · **To what, where:** them, 2 horses, total

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 350 «Farm animals by numbers: stomachs, hooves, toes, eggs and litres» 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/350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:1
# text = Count them: a farmer has 2 horses and 3 cows.
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	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	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 farmer | 2 horses and 3 cows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=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 tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:2
# text = How many tails, and how many toes do they stand on in total?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand on** | present · do-support | many tails |  |  | total |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in total=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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5 tails and 40 toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:o1:1
# text = 5 tails and 40 toes
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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10 tails and 32 toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:o2:1
# text = 10 tails and 32 toes
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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5 tails and 32 toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:o3:1
# text = 5 tails and 32 toes
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	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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5 tails and 20 toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:350-farm-animals-by-numbers-stomachs-hooves-toes-eggs-and-litres:t4:o4:1
# text = 5 tails and 20 toes
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	toes	toe	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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