Test 12 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

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

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

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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 legs	punct
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Why	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 name	det
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 name	amod
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 millipedes	case
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 millipedes	amod
12	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 name	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	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

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They all have exactly 100 legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 100	advmod
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	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

They have exactly six legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 six	advmod
4	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	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

They have no legs at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 legs	det
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	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

Most have fewer than 400 legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 400	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	3 fewer	fixed
5	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	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

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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