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title: Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot. How many toes, and which… — City birds: sparrows, starlings, swift… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot. How many toes, and which way can they point? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 2 · ★ · City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregri…

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Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot. How many toes, and which way can they point?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, boy, way · **What happens:** count, look, point · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 369 «City birds: sparrows, starlings, swifts, crows and peregrines on tall buildings» 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/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:1
# text = Count them: a boy looks at a swift's foot.
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	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	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 | **look** | present | a boy |  |  |  |  | at a swift's foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=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 toes, and which way can they point?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:2
# text = How many toes, and which way can they point?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	7	det	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | can | which way |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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3 toes pointing forward and 1 back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:o1:1
# text = 3 toes pointing forward and 1 back
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund | 3 toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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4 toes, all able to point forward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:o2:1
# text = 4 toes, all able to point forward
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	point	point	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2 toes pointing forward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:o3:1
# text = 2 toes pointing forward
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | gerund | 2 toes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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5 toes like a hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings:t2:o4:1
# text = 5 toes like a hand
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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