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title: Ascertain the aggregate number of wings possessed by seven hummingbi… — The aviary: the walk-through tropical… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the aggregate number of wings possessed by seven hummingbirds. Exam question 3 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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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# Exam question 3 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

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Ascertain the aggregate number of wings possessed by seven hummingbirds.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, possess · **To what, where:** aggregate number, wings

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house:e3:1
# text = Ascertain the aggregate number of wings possessed by seven hummingbirds.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	aggregate	aggregate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate number of wings |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **possess** | participle |  | wings *not said here* |  |  |  | by seven hummingbirds | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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Fourteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house:e3:o1:1
# text = Fourteen
1	Fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Twenty-one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house:e3:o2:1
# text = Twenty-one
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	flat	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house:e3:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Twenty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house:e3:o4:1
# text = Twenty-eight
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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