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title: Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a car… — Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon. How many hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts? Test 10 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 10 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

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Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon. How many hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, octopus, many · **What happens:** count up, sit, count · **To what, where:** them, side, cartoon

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This is test 10 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t10:1
# text = Count them up: an octopus and an earthworm sit side by side in a cartoon.
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	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count up** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | present | a octopus and a earthworm | side by side |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location |

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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 hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t10:2
# text = How many hearts together, if the worm's five pairs count as hearts?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
3	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | many |  |  |  |  | as hearts | vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as heart=Attribute |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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11

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t10:o1:1
# text = 11
1	11	11	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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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t10:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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13

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:41-counting-animals:t10:o3:1
# text = 13
1	13	13	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:41-counting-animals:t10: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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