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title: Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long. Abou… — Beetles: the biggest group of animals… · tree and pragmatics
description: Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long. About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 306 «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…

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Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long. About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Three featherwing beetles, many · **What happens:** be, fit · **To what, where:** line centimetre

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 306 «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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/306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:1
# text = Three featherwing beetles in a row are about 1 millimetre long.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	featherwing	featherwing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	millimetre	millimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Three featherwing beetles in a row |  |  |  |  | 1 millimetre *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |

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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:* About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:2
# text = About how many would fit in a line 1 centimetre long?
1	About	about	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | would | many |  |  | a line centimetre |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in centimetre=Trajectory |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:o1:1
# text = About 10
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	10	10	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 {#o2}

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About 300

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:o2:1
# text = About 300
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	300	300	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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About 30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:o3:1
# text = About 30
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	30	30	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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About 3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:306-beetles-the-biggest-group-of-animals-on-earth-wing-cases-and-six-legs:t10:o4:1
# text = About 3
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	3	3	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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**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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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