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title: «octopus has 8 tentacles innit» What is right? — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «octopus has 8 tentacles innit» What is right? Test 1 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 right.
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# Test 1 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«octopus has 8 tentacles innit» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** octopus · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** tentacles innit · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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/41-counting-animals/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t1:1
# text = «octopus has 8 tentacles innit» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | octopus | tentacles innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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No, an octopus has 10 tentacles, same as any squid has

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t1:o1:1
# text = No, an octopus has 10 tentacles, same as any squid has
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | 10 tentacles  same |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | any squid |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, and it has 2 more short arms on its back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, and it has 2 more short arms on its back
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | it | 2 more short arms |  | its back |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, every single limb of an octopus is a tentacle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, every single limb of an octopus is a tentacle
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tentacle	tentacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | every single limb of a octopus | a tentacle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, an octopus has 8 arms; squids have the 2 tentacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t1:o4:1
# text = No, an octopus has 8 arms; squids have the 2 tentacles
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	squids	squid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a octopus | 8 arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | squids | the 2 tentacles |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient |

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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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