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title: «5-armed starfish and 2 sea spiders with 8 legs each, how many arms… — The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colos… · tree and pragmatics
description: «5-armed starfish and 2 sea spiders with 8 legs each, how many arms n legs altogether» Test 4 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 4 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

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«5-armed starfish and 2 sea spiders with 8 legs each, how many arms n legs altogether»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is test 4 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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/171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:t4:1
# text = «5-armed starfish and 2 sea spiders with 8 legs each, how many arms n legs altogether»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	starfish	starfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
18	n	n	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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18

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:t4:o1:1
# text = 18
1	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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21

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:t4:o2:1
# text = 21
1	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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13

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:t4:o3:1
# text = 13
1	13	13	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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26

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice:t4:o4:1
# text = 26
1	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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