--- title: Count them: a stick insect has 6 legs. How many legs do 5 stick inse… — Natural selection we can watch: moths,… · tree and pragmatics description: Count them: a stick insect has 6 legs. How many legs do 5 stick insects on a twig have? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 279 «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants/t8/) [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/) / [Natural selection we can watch: moths,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★ · Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and… Count them: a stick insect has 6 legs. How many legs do 5 stick insects on a twig have? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, stick insect, many legs, 5 stick insects · **What happens:** count, have, do · **To what, where:** them, 6 legs, 5 stick insects, twig This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 279 «Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches, germs and tuskless elephants» 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/279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a stick insect has 6 legs. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:1 # text = Count them: a stick insect has 6 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 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . 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 | **have** | present | a stick insect | 6 legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | 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 do 5 stick insects on a twig have? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:2 # text = How many legs do 5 stick insects on a twig have? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 twig twig NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | many legs | 5 stick insects | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Eventuality | | 2 | **have** | infinitive | 5 stick insects *not said here* | | | a twig | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 20 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:o1:1 # text = 20 1 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 11 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:o2:1 # text = 11 1 11 11 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} 30 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:o3:1 # text = 30 1 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 25 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants:t8:o4:1 # text = 25 1 25 25 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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