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description: Count them: Sonic and his friend Shadow are real hedgehogs with about 6,000 spines each. How many spines together, roughly? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the
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# Test 5 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

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Count them: Sonic and his friend Shadow are real hedgehogs with about 6,000 spines each. How many spines together, roughly?

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

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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/396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: Sonic and his friend Shadow are real hedgehogs with about 6,000 spines each.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:1
# text = Count them: Sonic and his friend Shadow are real hedgehogs with about 6,000 spines each.
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	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Sonic	Sonic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	6,000	6000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	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* |  |  |  | with 6,000 spines  each | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Sonic and his friend Shadow | real hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **shadow** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many spines together, roughly?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:2
# text = How many spines together, roughly?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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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About 6,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:o1:1
# text = About 6,000
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	6,000	6000	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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About 12,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:o2:1
# text = About 12,000
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	12,000	12,000	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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About 1,200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:o3:1
# text = About 1,200
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	1,200	1200	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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About 60,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:396-cartoon-animals-put-right-scooby-doo-garfield-sonic-winnie-the-pooh-and-woody-woodpecker:t5:o4:1
# text = About 60,000
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	60,000	60000	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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**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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