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title: It is given that three cows and two goats are housed together. Ascer… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs,… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that three cows and two goats are housed together. Ascertain the aggregate number of legs. Exam question 3 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 3 · The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing…

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It is given that three cows and two goats are housed together. Ascertain the aggregate number of legs.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** that, you · **What happens:** give, cow, house, ascertain · **To what, where:** It, two goats, aggregate number

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 96 «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» 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/96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that three cows and two goats are housed together.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:1
# text = It is given that three cows and two goats are housed together.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	goats	goat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	housed	house	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cow** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **house** | present · passive |  | two goats |  |  |  | together *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |

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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:* Ascertain the aggregate number of legs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:2
# text = Ascertain the aggregate number of legs.
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	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	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 legs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic |

## The options {#options}

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

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Twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:o1:1
# text = Twenty
1	Twenty	twenty	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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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:o2:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:o3:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	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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Sixteen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:96-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands:e3:o4:1
# text = Sixteen
1	Sixteen	sixteen	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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