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title: A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150… — The aquarium: the coral reef tank · tree and pragmatics
description: A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150. How many babies could hatch from both? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 90 «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 9 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

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A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150. How many babies could hatch from both?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pouch, neighbour, many babies · **What happens:** hold, hatch · **To what, where:** 100 eggs, 150

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 90 «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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/90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:1
# text = A seahorse dad's pouch holds 100 eggs, and his neighbour's holds 150.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	pouch	pouch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	150	150	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | a seahorse dad's pouch | 100 eggs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | present | pouch's neighbour | 150 |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 150=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 babies could hatch from both?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:2
# text = How many babies could hatch from both?
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	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | could | many babies |  |  |  |  | from both | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from both=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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250

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:o1:1
# text = 250
1	250	250	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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50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:o2:1
# text = 50
1	50	50	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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200

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:o3:1
# text = 200
1	200	200	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 {#o4}

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150

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:90-aquarium-the-coral-reef-tank:t9:o4:1
# text = 150
1	150	150	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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