--- title: Count them: a survey boat sees 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins fr… — China's great rivers: the finless porp… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a survey boat sees 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins from the sea. How many back fins? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/t1/) [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/) / [China's great rivers: the finless porp…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★★ · China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji… Count them: a survey boat sees 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins from the sea. How many back fins? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, survey boat · **What happens:** count, see · **To what, where:** them, 3 finless porpoises, sea This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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/379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a survey boat sees 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins from the sea. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:1 # text = Count them: a survey boat sees 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins from the sea. 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 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 survey survey NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 finless finless NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 porpoises porpoise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 dolphins dolphin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **see** | present | a survey boat | 3 finless porpoises and 2 dolphins | | the sea | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer porpoise=Stimulus | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many back fins? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:2 # text = How many back fins? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 fins fin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:o1:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 0 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:o2:1 # text = 0 1 0 0 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:o3:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon:t1:o4:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 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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