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title: 2 orangutans, 3 gibbons and 4 bonobos. how many tails, think before… — The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bo… · tree and pragmatics
description: 2 orangutans, 3 gibbons and 4 bonobos. how many tails, think before u answer Test 2 · ★★★ 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 c
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · The ape house: orangutans, gibbons, bonobos and how apes t…

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2 orangutans, 3 gibbons and 4 bonobos. how many tails, think before u answer

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** 2 orangutans · **What happens:** think

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This is test 2 · ★★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t2:1
# text = 2 orangutans, 3 gibbons and 4 bonobos. how many tails, think before u answer
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	gibbons	gibbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	u	u	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | 2 orangutans and 3 gibbons and 4 bonobos and many tails |  |  |  | before u answer |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t2:o1:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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9

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t2:o2:1
# text = 9
1	9	9	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 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t2:o3:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:85-ape-house-orangutans-gibbons-bonobos:t2:o4:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	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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