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# Test 3 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

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Count them: three crabs, each with 2 claws and 8 walking legs. How many legs altogether, counting claws?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many · **What happens:** count, walk · **To what, where:** them, claws

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: three crabs, each with 2 claws and 8 walking legs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:1
# text = Count them: three crabs, each with 2 claws and 8 walking legs.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 legs altogether, counting claws?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:2
# text = How many legs altogether, counting claws?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
7	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | gerund | many | claws |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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33

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:o1:1
# text = 33
1	33	33	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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24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:o2:1
# text = 24
1	24	24	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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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:o3:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	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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30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t3:o4:1
# text = 30
1	30	30	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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