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title: Count them: the skin has three main layers. A doctor looks at skin f… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freck… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: the skin has three main layers. A doctor looks at skin from four children. How many layers in all? Test 7 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 7 · Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn

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Count them: the skin has three main layers. A doctor looks at skin from four children. How many layers in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, skin, doctor · **What happens:** count, have, look · **To what, where:** them, three main layers

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This is test 7 of lesson 353 «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» 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/353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: the skin has three main layers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:1
# text = Count them: the skin has three main layers.
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	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 | the skin | three main layers |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=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:* A doctor looks at skin from four children.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:2
# text = A doctor looks at skin from four children.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | a doctor |  |  |  |  | from four children; at skin | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at skin=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* How many layers in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:3
# text = How many layers in all?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:o1:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	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 {#o2}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn:t7:o4:1
# 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.

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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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