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title: In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes u… — Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, an… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg. How many bones are really in one foot? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of…

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In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg. How many bones are really in one foot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lightning, skeleton, many bones · **What happens:** strike, flash up, be · **To what, where:** Tom, cartoon, one foot

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 359 «Bones by name: hips, legs and feet, and the extra bones of a baby» 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/359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:1
# text = In a cartoon Tom gets struck by lightning and his skeleton flashes up with just a few stick bones in each leg.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	flashes	flash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | present · passive | lightning | Tom |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
| 2 | **flash up** | present | Tom's skeleton |  |  |  |  | with a few stick bones in each leg | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bone=Theme |

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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 bones are really in one foot?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:2
# text = How many bones are really in one foot?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many bones |  |  | one foot |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:o1:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	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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26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:o2:1
# text = 26
1	26	26	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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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:o3:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:359-bones-by-name-hips-legs-and-feet-and-the-extra-bones-of-a-baby:t5:o4:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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