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title: Count the ears: 4 lions and 1 tiger are lying in the sun. How many e… — The big cats house: lions and tigers u… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count the ears: 4 lions and 1 tiger are lying in the sun. How many ears altogether? Test 4 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

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Count the ears: 4 lions and 1 tiger are lying in the sun. How many ears altogether?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, 4 lions · **What happens:** count, lie · **To what, where:** ears, sun.

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This is test 4 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t4:1
# text = Count the ears: 4 lions and 1 tiger are lying in the sun. How many ears altogether?
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	csubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
18	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ears |  |  |  | many ears *obl*; altogether *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present · progressive | 4 lions and 1 tiger |  |  | the sun. |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t4: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 {#o2}

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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t4:o2:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	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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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t4:o3:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t4:o4:1
# 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.

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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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