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title: In a cartoon an octopus has ten wiggly tentacles. What would you fix? — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon an octopus has ten wiggly tentacles. What would you fix? Test 4 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 4 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

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In a cartoon an octopus has ten wiggly tentacles. What would you fix?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** octopus, you · **What happens:** have, fix · **To what, where:** ten wiggly tentacles, cartoon

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon an octopus has ten wiggly tentacles.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon an octopus has ten wiggly tentacles.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	wiggly	wiggly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | ten wiggly tentacles |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient |

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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:* What would you fix?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:2
# text = What would you fix?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It has twelve arms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:o1:1
# text = It has twelve arms
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | twelve arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It has six arms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:o2:1
# text = It has six arms
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | six arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It has eight arms; ten limbs is a squid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:o3:1
# text = It has eight arms; ten limbs is a squid
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | eight arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ten limbs | a squid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing is wrong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing is wrong
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | tree rules |

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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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