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description: A parrot climbs up the cage bars. How many toes point forward on each foot? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 10 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

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A parrot climbs up the cage bars. How many toes point forward on each foot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** parrot, many toes · **What happens:** climb up, point · **To what, where:** cage bars, foot

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A parrot climbs up the cage bars.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:1
# text = A parrot climbs up the cage bars.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | present | a parrot | the cage bars |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location bar=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 toes point forward on each foot?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:2
# text = How many toes point forward on each foot?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **point** | present | many toes |  |  | each foot |  | forward *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

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

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:o1:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	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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Only one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:o2:1
# text = Only one
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:o3:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	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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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t10:o4:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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