Test 5 · Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs

What would happen if a spider fell into the sticky part of a stranger's web?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spider · What happens: happen, fall · To what, where: sticky part

This is test 5 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 fell	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spider	det
6	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 part	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 part	det
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 part	amod
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 web	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stranger	det
14	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 web	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 stranger	case
16	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	a spider					into the sticky part of a stranger's web result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into part=Result

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

The web would let it go straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 web	det
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	the web	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, spiders never stick to any web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 spiders	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 stick	advmod
5	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 web	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 web	det
8	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stick	present	Nothing spiders					to any web	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to web=Co-Patient

Option 3

It would eat the web at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 web	det
5	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	It	the web					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could get stuck just like a fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 fly	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fly	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fly	det
8	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	It					like a fly; stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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