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title: An octopus and a squid share a tank. How many limbs altogether, arms… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics
description: An octopus and a squid share a tank. How many limbs altogether, arms and tentacles? Test 3 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 wrong.
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# Test 3 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

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An octopus and a squid share a tank. How many limbs altogether, arms and tentacles?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** octopus · **What happens:** share · **To what, where:** tank

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This is test 3 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An octopus and a squid share a tank.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3:1
# text = An octopus and a squid share a tank.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | a octopus and a squid | a tank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 limbs altogether, arms and tentacles?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3:2
# text = How many limbs altogether, arms and tentacles?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3:o1:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	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 {#o2}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3:o2:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3: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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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t3:o4:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	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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