Test 9 · Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs
Darwin's bark spider spins a web across a river. About how wide can it be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bark spider, spider · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: web, river
This is test 9 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: Darwin's bark spider spins a web across a river.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Darwin | Darwin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Darwin | case |
| 3 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spider | compound |
| 4 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | nsubj |
| 5 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 web | det |
| 7 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | obj |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Darwin's bark spider | a web | a river | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent web=Theme across river=Trajectory |
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: About how wide can it be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 wide | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wide | advmod |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 be | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wide | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wide | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | spider | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly 1 metre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 metre | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metre | nummod |
| 3 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 2 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 kilometres | nummod |
| 3 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About 25 centimetres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 25 | advmod |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 centimetres | nummod |
| 3 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Up to about 25 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 metres | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 metres | case |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 25 | advmod |
| 4 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 metres | nummod |
| 5 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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