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title: 4 elephants in the house. how many trunks and how many ears altogether — The elephant house: herds, feet, food… · tree and pragmatics
description: 4 elephants in the house. how many trunks and how many ears altogether Test 2 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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 2 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

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4 elephants in the house. how many trunks and how many ears altogether

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 2 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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/83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t2:1
# text = 4 elephants in the house. how many trunks and how many ears altogether
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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16 trunks and 8 ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t2:o1:1
# text = 16 trunks and 8 ears
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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8 trunks and 4 ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t2:o2:1
# text = 8 trunks and 4 ears
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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4 trunks and 8 ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t2:o3:1
# text = 4 trunks and 8 ears
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4 trunks and 4 ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:83-elephant-house-herds-feet-food-mouse-myth:t2:o4:1
# text = 4 trunks and 4 ears
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	trunks	trunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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