--- title: Ascertain the number of California condors known to remain in the ye… — Conservation: how people help animals… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of California condors known to remain in the year 1987. Exam question 4 of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 wr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/e4/) [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/) / [Conservation: how people help animals…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/78-conservation-animals-come-back/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Conservation: how people help animals come back Ascertain the number of California condors known to remain in the year 1987. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, know, remain · **To what, where:** number, California condors This is exam question 4 of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/78-conservation-animals-come-back/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the number of California condors known to remain in the year 1987. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 condors condor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 7 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 1987 1987 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of California condors | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **know** | participle | | California condors *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **remain** | to-infinitive | | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Fifty-one thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:e4:o1:1 # text = Fifty-one thousand 1 Fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ 4 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Twenty-seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:e4:o2:1 # text = Twenty-seven 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two hundred and seventy ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:e4:o3:1 # text = Two hundred and seventy 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Five hundred thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:e4:o4:1 # text = Five hundred thousand 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ _ 3 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|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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