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title: My mate counted a bee's wings and got two, so bees have two wings, i… — Counting animals: legs, arms, wings an… · tree and pragmatics
description: My mate counted a bee's wings and got two, so bees have two wings, innit? Test 6 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 6 · Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails

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My mate counted a bee's wings and got two, so bees have two wings, innit?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, bees · **What happens:** count, get, have, innit · **To what, where:** wings, two, two wings

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t6:1
# text = My mate counted a bee's wings and got two, so bees have two wings, innit?
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past | My mate | a bee's wings |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | My mate *not said here* | two |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | present | bees | two wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 4 | **innit** | infinitive | bees *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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Yes, but queens have four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t6:o1:1
# text = Yes, but queens have four
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | queens | four |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent four=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, bees have six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t6:o2:1
# text = No, bees have six
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | bees | six |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, bees have just two wings, like house flies do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t6:o3:1
# text = Yes, bees have just two wings, like house flies do
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | bees | two wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | present | house flies |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, bees have four, hooked together in pairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:40-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails:t6:o4:1
# text = No, bees have four, hooked together in pairs
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	hooked	hook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | bees | four |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hook** | participle | four *not said here* |  |  | pairs |  | together *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |

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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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