--- title: Ascertain the aggregate number of legs possessed by a group of five… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the aggregate number of legs possessed by a group of five adult insects. Exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 wa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails Ascertain the aggregate number of legs possessed by a group of five adult insects. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, possess · **To what, where:** aggregate number, legs This is exam question 1 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:e1:1 # text = Ascertain the aggregate number of legs possessed by a group of five adult insects. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 aggregate aggregate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 possessed possess VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 13 adult adult ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the aggregate number of legs | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **possess** | participle | | legs *not said here* | | | | by a group of five adult insects | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Thirty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:e1:o1:1 # text = Thirty 1 Thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Fifteen ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:e1:o2:1 # text = Fifteen 1 Fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Forty ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:e1:o3:1 # text = Forty 1 Forty forty NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Twenty-five ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:e1:o4:1 # text = Twenty-five 1 Twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 flat _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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