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description: «insects are just small, nothing tiny is a record breaker» Which tiny animal breaks the record for body lengths a second? Test 10 · ★★★ 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 d
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Tiny champions: the strongest beetle, the highest-jumping…

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«insects are just small, nothing tiny is a record breaker» Which tiny animal breaks the record for body lengths a second?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** insects, nothing, tiny animal · **What happens:** be, break · **To what, where:** record breaker

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This is test 10 · ★★★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:t10:1
# text = «insects are just small, nothing tiny is a record breaker» Which tiny animal breaks the record for body lengths a second?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	record	record	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	breaker	breaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
15	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	breaks	break	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	lengths	length	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | insects |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | nothing | a record breaker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | present | tiny animal | a record breaker |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Patient record=Result |

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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 {#o1}

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No tiny animal, only the cheetah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:t10:o1:1
# text = No tiny animal, only the cheetah
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The elephant on the savannah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:t10:o2:1
# text = The elephant on the savannah
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	savannah	savannah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The tortoise, slow but steady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:t10:o3:1
# text = The tortoise, slow but steady
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A tiny mite in California

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:365-tiny-champions-the-strongest-beetle-the-highest-jumping-flea-and-the-leggiest-millipede:t10:o4:1
# text = A tiny mite in California
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	California	California	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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