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title: State the number of legs, wings and eyes possessed by an individual… — Honey and the beekeeper's year · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of legs, wings and eyes possessed by an individual honeybee. Exam question 2 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Exam question 2 · Honey and the beekeeper's year

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State the number of legs, wings and eyes possessed by an individual honeybee.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, possess · **To what, where:** number, eyes

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 344 «Honey and the beekeeper's year» 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/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:e2:1
# text = State the number of legs, wings and eyes possessed by an individual honeybee.
1	State	state	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
10	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	individual	individual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of legs and wings and eyes |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **possess** | participle |  | eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | by a individual honeybee | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Six legs, four wings and only two eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:e2:o1:1
# text = Six legs, four wings and only two eyes
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Six legs, two wings and two big eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:e2:o2:1
# text = Six legs, two wings and two big eyes
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eight legs, four wings and five eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:e2:o3:1
# text = Eight legs, four wings and five eyes
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Six legs, four wings and five eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year:e2:o4:1
# text = Six legs, four wings and five eyes
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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