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title: Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverf… — Minibeasts in the house: house spiders… · tree and pragmatics
description: Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish. How many legs together, if a silverfish is an insect? Test 12 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Test 12 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

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Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish. How many legs together, if a silverfish is an insect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, girl, many · **What happens:** count, see, be · **To what, where:** them, dust mite, microscope, insect

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This is test 12 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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/370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:1
# text = Count them: under a microscope a girl sees a dust mite and a silverfish.
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	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	microscope	microscope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mite	mite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	silverfish	silverfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | present | a girl | a dust mite and a silverfish |  | a microscope |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mite=Stimulus |

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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:* How many legs together, if a silverfish is an insect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:2
# text = How many legs together, if a silverfish is an insect?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
4	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	silverfish	silverfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 a** | present | many | a insect |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:o1:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	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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12

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:o2:1
# text = 12
1	12	12	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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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:o3:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	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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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:370-minibeasts-in-the-house-house-spiders-silverfish-woodlice-moths-and-cockroaches:t12:o4:1
# text = 10
1	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.

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