--- title: Count them: a trilobite fossil shows 5 pairs of jointed legs. How ma… — How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a trilobite fossil shows 5 pairs of jointed legs. How many legs is that? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 276 «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [How old is it? Rock layers, rock clock…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the lon… Count them: a trilobite fossil shows 5 pairs of jointed legs. How many legs is that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, trilobite fossil, many legs · **What happens:** count, show, joint, be · **To what, where:** them, 5 pairs This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 276 «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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/276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a trilobite fossil shows 5 pairs of jointed legs. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:1 # text = Count them: a trilobite fossil shows 5 pairs of jointed legs. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 trilobite trilobite NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 jointed joint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 12 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **show** | present | a trilobite fossil | 5 pairs of jointed legs | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pair=Recipient | | 3 | **joint** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many legs is that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:2 # text = How many legs is that? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many legs | | | | | how *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:o1:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:o2:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:o3:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:276-how-old-is-it-rock-layers-rock-clocks-amber-and-the-long-story-of-life:t5:o4:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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