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title: Count them: if Tom and the alley cat Butch were real cats, how many… — Documentaries vs cartoons: added sound… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: if Tom and the alley cat Butch were real cats, how many toes would they have together? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 395 «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories an…

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Count them: if Tom and the alley cat Butch were real cats, how many toes would they have together?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Tom, real cats · **What happens:** count, be, have · **To what, where:** them, real cats

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 395 «Documentaries vs cartoons: added sounds, edited stories and what is real» 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/395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real:t4:1
# text = Count them: if Tom and the alley cat Butch were real cats, how many toes would they have together?
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	:	_	13	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Butch	butch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	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 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Tom and the cat Butch | real cats and many toes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | would | real cats and many toes |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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32

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real:t4:o1:1
# text = 32
1	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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36

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real:t4:o2:1
# text = 36
1	36	36	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real:t4:o3:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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40

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:395-documentaries-vs-cartoons-added-sounds-edited-stories-and-what-is-real:t4:o4:1
# text = 40
1	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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