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title: An axolotl has 4 legs, 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side. How ma… — The amphibian room: poison frogs, axol… · tree and pragmatics
description: An axolotl has 4 legs, 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side. How many gill stalks altogether? Test 3 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 3 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

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An axolotl has 4 legs, 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side. How many gill stalks altogether?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** axolotl, many · **What happens:** have, gill · **To what, where:** 4 legs, stalks

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This is test 3 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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/89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An axolotl has 4 legs, 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3:1
# text = An axolotl has 4 legs, 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axolotl	axolotl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	gill	gill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a axolotl | 4 legs and 1 tail and 3 gill stalks on each side |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* How many gill stalks altogether?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3:2
# text = How many gill stalks altogether?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gill	gill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gill** | present | many | stalks |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Source |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3: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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3: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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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:89-amphibian-room-poison-frogs-axolotls-frog-rescue:t3:o4:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	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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