--- title: Count them: a lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail. How many legs and tails… — Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa,… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail. How many legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together? 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How many legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, lizard, many legs · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** them, 4 legs This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 383 «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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/383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:1 # text = Count them: a lizard has 4 legs and 1 tail. 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 lizard lizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . 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 | **have** | present | a lizard | 4 legs and 1 tail | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | 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 legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:2 # text = How many legs and tails do 3 Megalania have together? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nsubj _ _ 8 Megalania Megalania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · do-support | many legs and tails | | | | | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 legs and 12 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:o1:1 # text = 12 legs and 12 tails 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 9 legs and 3 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:o2:1 # text = 9 legs and 3 tails 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 12 legs and 3 tails ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:o3:1 # text = 12 legs and 3 tails 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 4 legs and 1 tail ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises:t8:o4:1 # text = 4 legs and 1 tail 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ ``` 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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