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title: State the number of legs possessed by the millipede discovered in a… — Tiny champions: the strongest beetle,… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of legs possessed by the millipede discovered in a deep drill hole in Australia in the year 2020. Exam question 4 of lesson 365 «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Exam question 4 · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…

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State the number of legs possessed by the millipede discovered in a deep drill hole in Australia in the year 2020.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, possess, discover · **To what, where:** number, legs, millipede, deep drill hole

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 365 «Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping flea and the leggiest millipede» 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/365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:e4:1
# text = State the number of legs possessed by the millipede discovered in a deep drill hole in Australia in the year 2020.
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	_	_
6	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	millipede	millipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	drill	drill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **possess** | participle |  | legs *not said here* |  |  |  | by the millipede | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **discover** | participle |  | the millipede *not said here* |  | a deep drill hole in Australia in the year |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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Ten thousand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:e4:o1:1
# text = Ten thousand
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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One hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:e4:o2:1
# 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	_	_
```

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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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One thousand three hundred and six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:e4:o3:1
# text = One thousand three hundred and six
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seven hundred and fifty, the same as every millipede

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:e4:o4:1
# text = Seven hundred and fifty, the same as every millipede
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	millipede	millipede	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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

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