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title: ★★★ A park keeper counts the croquet things in a story: 4 players, e… — The real animals of Wonderland: the do… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ A park keeper counts the croquet things in a story: 4 players, each with one flamingo and one hedgehog, and 3 hedgehogs have walked away. How many animals are still at the game, not counting the players? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 401 «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the Marc
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# Test 12 · ★★ · The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, th…

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★★★ A park keeper counts the croquet things in a story: 4 players, each with one flamingo and one hedgehog, and 3 hedgehogs have walked away. How many animals are still at the game, not counting the players?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, many animals, game · **What happens:** count, walk away, be, not count · **To what, where:** croquet things, story, 3 hedgehogs, game, players

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 401 «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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/401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ A park keeper counts the croquet things in a story: 4 players, each with one flamingo and one hedgehog, and 3 hedgehogs have walked away.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:1
# text = ★★★ A park keeper counts the croquet things in a story: 4 players, each with one flamingo and one hedgehog, and 3 hedgehogs have walked away.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	croquet	croquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	appos	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	walked	walk	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
31	away	away	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | ★ ★ a park keeper | the croquet things |  | a story |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **walk away** | present · perfect · passive |  | 3 hedgehogs |  |  |  | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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 animals are still at the game, not counting the players?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:2
# text = How many animals are still at the game, not counting the players?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many animals |  |  | the game | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **count** | gerund | the game *not said here* | the players |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:o1:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:o2:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:o3:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog:t12:o4:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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