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title: Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond. How many… — Silkworms and goldfish: two animals Ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond. How many tail fins in all? Test 8 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 8 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

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Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond. How many tail fins in all?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 2 fantails · **What happens:** count, swim · **To what, where:** them, pond

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This is test 8 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:1
# text = Count them: 3 wild goldfish and 2 fantails swim in a pond.
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	:	_	1	punct	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	fantails	fantail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	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* |  |  |  | 3 wild goldfish *obl* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | present | 2 fantails |  |  | a pond |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory |

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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 tail fins in all?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:2
# text = How many tail fins in all?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fins	fin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	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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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:o1:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:o2:1
# text = Six
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t8:o4:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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