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title: How many fingers does an aye-aye have on each hand, counting its lon… — The nocturnal house: night animals by… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many fingers does an aye-aye have on each hand, counting its long thin one? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 wr
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# Test 12 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

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How many fingers does an aye-aye have on each hand, counting its long thin one?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many fingers, aye aye · **What happens:** do, have, count · **To what, where:** hand, long thin one

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t12:1
# text = How many fingers does an aye-aye have on each hand, counting its long thin one?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	aye	aye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | many fingers |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | a aye aye |  |  | each hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **count** | gerund | a aye aye *not said here* | hand's long thin one |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t12:o1:1
# text = One
1	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 2 {#o2}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t12:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t12: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t12:o4:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	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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