Test 11 · ★ · Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites
A jumping spider follows your finger with its front eyes without turning its body. How?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: jumping spider · What happens: jump, follow, turn · To what, where: finger, body
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 148 «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» 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: A jumping spider follows your finger with its front eyes without turning its body.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spider | det |
| 2 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 spider | amod |
| 3 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follows | nsubj |
| 4 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 finger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follows | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follows | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 turning | mark |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 follows | advcl |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 follows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | follow | present | a jumping spider | your finger | with spider's front eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | gerund | a jumping spider not said here | spider's body | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
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: How?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 How | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
It is listening, not looking
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 listening | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 listening | aux |
| 3 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 looking | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 looking | advmod |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 listening | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | present · progressive | It | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
It has eyes on stalks like a snail
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 | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 stalks | case |
| 5 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 snail | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snail | det |
| 8 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stalks | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | It | eyes | stalks like a snail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its main eyes can swivel inside its head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swivel | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 swivel | aux |
| 5 | swivel | swivel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swivel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swivel | can | Its main eyes | its head | tree rules |
Option 4
It moves its whole head in a circle
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 | 2 moves | nsubj |
| 2 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moves | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 circle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 circle | det |
| 8 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | It | its whole head | a circle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result |
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