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description: Count them: a tray has 5 silkworms, each with 16 legs in all. How many legs is that? Test 2 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 
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# Test 2 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

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Count them: a tray has 5 silkworms, each with 16 legs in all. How many legs is that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, tray, many legs · **What happens:** count, have, be · **To what, where:** them, 5 silkworms

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This is test 2 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Count them: a tray has 5 silkworms, each with 16 legs in all.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:1
# text = Count them: a tray has 5 silkworms, each with 16 legs in all.
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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tray	tray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	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 | **have** | present | a tray | 5 silkworms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=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:* How many legs is that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:2
# text = How many legs is that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | many legs |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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80

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:o1:1
# text = 80
1	80	80	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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50

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:o2:1
# text = 50
1	50	50	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 {#o3}

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60

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:o3:1
# text = 60
1	60	60	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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30

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed:t2:o4:1
# text = 30
1	30	30	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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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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