--- title: Ascertain the number of legs possessed by a centipede bearing twenty… — The rainforest from below: understorey… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of legs possessed by a centipede bearing twenty-three pairs. Exam question 4 of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/e4/) [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/) / [The rainforest from below: understorey…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/3-the-rainforest-from-below/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor Ascertain the number of legs possessed by a centipede bearing twenty-three pairs. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, centipede · **What happens:** ascertain, possess, bear · **To what, where:** number, legs, three pairs This is exam question 4 of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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/3-the-rainforest-from-below/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the number of legs possessed by a centipede bearing twenty-three pairs. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 centipede centipede NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 bearing bear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 pairs pair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of legs | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **possess** | participle | | legs *not said here* | | | | by a centipede | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **bear** | gerund | a centipede *not said here* | three pairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=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. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Forty-four ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:e4:o1:1 # text = Forty-four 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Twenty-three ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:e4:o2:1 # text = Twenty-three 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Forty-six ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:e4:o3:1 # text = Forty-six 1 Forty forty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:e4:o4:1 # text = One hundred 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 nmod _ _ ``` 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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