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title: A yellow and black insect hovers by the flowers. You count two wings… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A yellow and black insect hovers by the flowers. You count two wings. What is it? Test 5 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

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A yellow and black insect hovers by the flowers. You count two wings. What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** You, it · **What happens:** count, be · **To what, where:** two wings

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A yellow and black insect hovers by the flowers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:1
# text = A yellow and black insect hovers by the flowers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hovers	hover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* You count two wings.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:2
# text = You count two wings.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | You | two wings |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* What is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:3
# text = What is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A honeybee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:o1:1
# text = A honeybee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	honeybee	honeybee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A wasp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:o2:1
# text = A wasp
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wasp	wasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A hoverfly, a harmless fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:o3:1
# text = A hoverfly, a harmless fly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoverfly	hoverfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bumblebee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t5:o4:1
# text = A bumblebee
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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