--- title: A tamarin mum has twins, and her neighbour has twins too. How many b… — The monkey house and the lemurs of Mad… · tree and pragmatics description: A tamarin mum has twins, and her neighbour has twins too. How many babies are there? 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How many babies are there? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tamarin mum, neighbour, many babies · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** twins This is test 3 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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/86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A tamarin mum has twins, and her neighbour has twins too. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3:1 # text = A tamarin mum has twins, and her neighbour has twins too. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tamarin tamarin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 twins twin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 too too ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a tamarin mum | twins | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient | | 2 | **have** | present | mum's neighbour | twins | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient | 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 babies are there? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3:2 # text = How many babies are there? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many babies | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3:o1:1 # text = 2 1 2 2 NUM LS NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3:o2:1 # 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 3 {#o3} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3:o3:1 # 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 4 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:86-monkey-house-and-lemurs-of-madagascar:t3: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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