--- title: Do you think a mouse has more or fewer neck bones than a giraffe? — More record-breakers and oddballs: slo… · tree and pragmatics description: Do you think a mouse has more or fewer neck bones than a giraffe? Test 5 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/t5/) [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/) / [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/) / t5 # Test 5 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele… Do you think a mouse has more or fewer neck bones than a giraffe? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, mouse · **What happens:** think, have · **To what, where:** more fewer neck bones · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t5:1 # text = Do you think a mouse has more or fewer neck bones than a giraffe? 1 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 10 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | a mouse | more fewer neck bones | | | | than a giraffe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} None at all, it is too small ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t5:o1:1 # text = None at all, it is too small 1 None none PRON NN PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 too too ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | None | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} The same, 7 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t5:o2:1 # text = The same, 7 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} More, about 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t5:o3:1 # text = More, about 20 1 More more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Fewer, about 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t5:o4:1 # text = Fewer, about 2 1 Fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 2 2 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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