Test 3 · Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs
In a cartoon, a spider shoots silk out of its mouth. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spider · What happens: shoot, be · To what, where: silk, cartoon
This is test 3 of lesson 147 «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a spider shoots silk out of its mouth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoots | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spider | det |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoots | nsubj |
| 7 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoots | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoots | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shoots | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | a spider | silk | a cartoon | out spider's mouth | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent silk=Theme in cartoon=Destination |
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.
Sentence 2: What is real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Silk comes out of the mouth, just like that
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 mouth | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 mouth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mouth | det |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 that | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 that | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Silk | the mouth | like that | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mouth=Result |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Silk comes out of spinnerets at the back end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 spinnerets | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 spinnerets | case |
| 5 | spinnerets | spinneret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 end | compound |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Silk | spinnerets | at the back end | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient spinneret=Result |
Option 3
Silk comes out of all eight legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 legs | det |
| 6 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 legs | nummod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Silk | all eight legs | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient leg=Result |
Option 4
Silk comes out of the eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Silk | the eyes | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result |
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