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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

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In A Bug's Life the ants walk on two legs and use two arms like people. Count them: how many legs does each real ant have, and how many would 4 real ants have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ants, you, many legs, real ant, many · **What happens:** walk, use, count, do, have · **To what, where:** Life, two arms, arms, real ant

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In A Bug's Life the ants walk on two legs and use two arms like people.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:1
# text = In A Bug's Life the ants walk on two legs and use two arms like people.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bug	Bug	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | the ants |  |  | a Bug's Life |  | on two legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory |
| 2 | **use** | infinitive | the ants *not said here* | two arms |  |  |  | like people | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |

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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:* Count them: how many legs does each real ant have, and how many would 4 real ants have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:2
# text = Count them: how many legs does each real ant have, and how many would 4 real ants have?
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	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | many legs | each real ant |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | present | each real ant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | would | many |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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6 each, so 24

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:o1:1
# text = 6 each, so 24
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	24	24	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	parataxis	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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8 each, so 32 in all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:o2:1
# text = 8 each, so 32 in all
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	32	32	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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4 each, so 16 in all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:o3:1
# text = 4 each, so 16 in all
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only 2 each, so 8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t3:o4:1
# text = Only 2 each, so 8
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
```

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

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