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title: Count them: a dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30. How many more teeth… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30. How many more teeth has the dog? Test 3 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 optio
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# Test 3 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

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Count them: a dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30. How many more teeth has the dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dog, cat, many more teeth · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them, 42 teeth, 30, dog

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This is test 3 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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/371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:1
# text = Count them: a dog has 42 teeth and a cat has 30.
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	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	42	42	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	30	30	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	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 dog | 42 teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | a cat | 30 |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 30=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 more teeth has the dog?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:2
# text = How many more teeth has the dog?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | many more teeth | the dog |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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22

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:o1:1
# text = 22
1	22	22	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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:o2:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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72

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal:t3:o4:1
# text = 72
1	72	72	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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