--- title: Ascertain the cardinality of the dentition of an adult domestic dog. — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the cardinality of the dentition of an adult domestic dog. Exam question 4 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a… Ascertain the cardinality of the dentition of an adult domestic dog. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain · **To what, where:** cardinality This is exam question 4 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the cardinality of the dentition of an adult domestic dog. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cardinality cardinality NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 dentition dentition NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 domestic domestic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the cardinality of the dentition of a domestic dog | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cardinality=Topic | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Thirty teeth ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:e4:o1:1 # text = Thirty teeth 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Thirty-two teeth ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:e4:o2:1 # text = Thirty-two teeth 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Forty-two teeth ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:e4:o3:1 # text = Forty-two teeth 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty-eight teeth ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:e4:o4:1 # text = Twenty-eight teeth 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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