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title: Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest. How ma… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest. How many beaks and legs? Test 1 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 1 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

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Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest. How many beaks and legs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, four stork chicks · **What happens:** count, poke · **To what, where:** them, heads, nest

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This is test 1 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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/375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:1
# text = Count them: four stork chicks poke their heads over the nest.
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	poke	poke	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	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 | **poke** | present | four stork chicks | chicks's heads |  | the nest |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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 beaks and legs?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:2
# text = How many beaks and legs?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	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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4 beaks and 16 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:o1:1
# text = 4 beaks and 16 legs
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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4 beaks and 4 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:o2:1
# text = 4 beaks and 4 legs
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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8 beaks and 8 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:o3:1
# text = 8 beaks and 8 legs
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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4 beaks and 8 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t1:o4:1
# text = 4 beaks and 8 legs
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	beaks	beak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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