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title: If you could count every kind of animal on the Earth, which group wo… — Insects and spiders · tree and pragmatics
description: If you could count every kind of animal on the Earth, which group would have the most kinds? Test 8 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» of the world 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 8 · Insects and spiders

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If you could count every kind of animal on the Earth, which group would have the most kinds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** count, have · **To what, where:** kind, Earth, most kinds

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This is test 8 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» of the world 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/world/72-insects-and-spiders/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:t8:1
# text = If you could count every kind of animal on the Earth, which group would have the most kinds?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | you | every kind of animal |  | the Earth |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | would |  | the most kinds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mammals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:t8:o1:1
# text = Mammals
1	Mammals	mammal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:t8:o2:1
# text = Birds
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:t8:o3:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Insects

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:72-insects-and-spiders:t8:o4:1
# text = Insects
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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