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title: 3 sawfish and 2 mantas cruise past, no wait, 4 mantas. how many tail… — The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: 3 sawfish and 2 mantas cruise past, no wait, 4 mantas. how many tails is that Test 8 of lesson 91 «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays

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3 sawfish and 2 mantas cruise past, no wait, 4 mantas. how many tails is that

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** 3 sawfish · **What happens:** cruise, be · **To what, where:** wait, many tails

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This is test 8 of lesson 91 «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» 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/91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays:t8:1
# text = 3 sawfish and 2 mantas cruise past, no wait, 4 mantas. how many tails is that
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sawfish	sawfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	mantas	manta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	cruise	cruise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	past	past	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	wait	wait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	mantas	manta	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cruise** | present | 3 sawfish and 2 mantas | no wait and 4 mantas |  |  |  | past *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | many tails |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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7

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays:t8:o1:1
# text = 7
1	7	7	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:91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays:t8: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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays:t8:o3:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:91-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays:t8:o4:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	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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