--- title: A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. How many gibbons are… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bo… · tree and pragmatics description: A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. How many gibbons are singing? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/t11/) [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/) / [The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t… A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. How many gibbons are singing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** visitor, 3 gibbon pairs, many gibbons · **What happens:** count, sing · **To what, where:** 3 gibbon pairs, duets This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 85 «The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes think» 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/85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:1 # text = A visitor counts 3 gibbon pairs singing duets. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 visitor visitor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 counts count VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 gibbon gibbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 singing sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ _ 8 duets duet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | present | a visitor | 3 gibbon pairs | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | 3 gibbon pairs *not said here* | duets | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duet=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. *Sentence 2:* How many gibbons are singing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:2 # text = How many gibbons are singing? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 gibbons gibbon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · progressive | many gibbons | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:o1:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:o2:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 9 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:o3:1 # text = 9 1 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t11:o4:1 # text = 4 1 4 4 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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