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title: Why is "thousand legs" a wrong name for most millipedes? — The insect house: ants, stick insects,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is "thousand legs" a wrong name for most millipedes? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

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Why is "thousand legs" a wrong name for most millipedes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t12:1
# text = Why is "thousand legs" a wrong name for most millipedes?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | thousand legs  a wrong name for most millipedes *obl*; why *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They all have exactly 100 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t12:o1:1
# text = They all have exactly 100 legs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | They | 100 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They have exactly six legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t12:o2:1
# text = They have exactly six legs
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They have no legs at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t12:o3:1
# text = They have no legs at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | They | no legs |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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

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Most have fewer than 400 legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions:t12:o4:1
# text = Most have fewer than 400 legs
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	400	400	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Most | 400 legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

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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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