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title: ★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roo… — Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree. How many is that? Test 17 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Test 17 · ★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the…

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★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree. How many is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Pigeon names, that · **What happens:** count, keep, be · **To what, where:** places, eggs

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This is test 17 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter V, part 2: The mushroom, the long neck and the Pigeon» of the books 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/books/10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon/#t17).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:1
# text = ★★★ Count the places the Pigeon names for keeping its eggs safe: roots of trees, banks, hedges, and finally the highest tree.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | infinitive | ★ | the places  the Pigeon names and roots of trees and banks and hedges and the highest tree |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund | the Pigeon names and roots of trees and banks and hedges and the highest tree *not said here* | its eggs |  |  |  | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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 is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:2
# text = How many is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:o2:1
# 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 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Five, if you also count the hedges and the banks separately

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:o3:1
# text = Five, if you also count the hedges and the banks separately
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hedges	hedge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
12	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | you | the hedges and the banks |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:10-alice-ch5-part2-the-pigeon:t17:o4:1
# 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.

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