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title: Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the… — White storks: Ukraine's favourite bird… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back. How far in a year? Test 3 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 
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# Test 3 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

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Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back. How far in a year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, stork · **What happens:** count, fly · **To what, where:** them, 10,000 kilometres, Africa

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This is test 3 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:1
# text = Count them: a stork flies about 10,000 kilometres to Africa and the same back.
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	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 | **fly** | present | a stork | 10,000 kilometres | Africa and the same back |  |  |  | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme to africa=Destination |

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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 far in a year?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:2
# text = How far in a year?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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About 20,000 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:o1:1
# text = About 20,000 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	20,000	20000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only about 10,000 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:o2:1
# text = Only about 10,000 kilometres
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only about 5,000 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:o3:1
# text = Only about 5,000 kilometres
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	5,000	5000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About 100,000 kilometres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:375-white-storks-ukraine-s-favourite-birds-and-their-journey-to-africa:t3:o4:1
# text = About 100,000 kilometres
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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