--- title: Count them: 3 owls perch on a branch. How many toes in all? — The big biology quiz, part 4: everythi… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: 3 owls perch on a branch. How many toes in all? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/t4/) [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/) / [The big biology quiz, part 4: everythi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301… Count them: 3 owls perch on a branch. How many toes in all? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count · **To what, where:** them This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: 3 owls perch on a branch. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:1 # text = Count them: 3 owls perch on a branch. 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 : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 owls owl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 6 perch perch NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many toes in all? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:2 # text = How many toes in all? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 18 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:o1:1 # text = 18 1 18 18 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:o2:1 # text = 30 1 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:o3:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t4:o4:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|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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