--- title: Ascertain the aggregate number of fingers and toes possessed by a si… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Ka… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the aggregate number of fingers and toes possessed by a single chimpanzee. Exam question 2 of lesson 387 «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/e2/) [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/) / [Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Ka…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and A… Ascertain the aggregate number of fingers and toes possessed by a single chimpanzee. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, possess · **To what, where:** aggregate number, fingers This is exam question 2 of lesson 387 «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the aggregate number of fingers and toes possessed by a single chimpanzee. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 chimpanzee chimpanzee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate number of fingers and toes | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **possess** | participle | | fingers and toes *not said here* | | | | by a single chimpanzee | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Sixteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory:e2:o1:1 # text = Sixteen 1 Sixteen sixteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Eighteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory:e2:o2:1 # text = Eighteen 1 Eighteen eighteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ten ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory:e2:o3:1 # text = Ten 1 Ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Twenty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory:e2:o4:1 # text = Twenty 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|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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