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title: A five-armed starfish has how many little eyes? — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A five-armed starfish has how many little eyes? Test 12 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 was wrong.
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# Test 12 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

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A five-armed starfish has how many little eyes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** armed starfish · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** many little eyes

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This is test 12 of lesson 40 «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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/40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t12:1
# text = A five-armed starfish has how many little eyes?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	starfish	starfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a armed starfish | many little eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Five, one at each arm tip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t12:o1:1
# text = Five, one at each arm tip
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One in the middle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t12:o2:1
# text = One in the middle
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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None at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t12:o3:1
# text = None at all
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Two, like a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t12:o4:1
# text = Two, like a fish
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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