Test 5 · ★ · Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites

What would happen if a jumping spider forgot its safety line and missed the fly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jumping spider · What happens: happen, jump, forget, miss · To what, where: safety line, fly

This is test 5 · ★ 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

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	_	8 forgot	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 spider	amod
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgot	nsubj
8	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 line	nmod:poss
10	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 line	compound
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgot	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 missed	cc
13	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 forgot	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fly	det
15	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 missed	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	jump	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	forget a condition, not said to happen	past	a jumping spider	spider's safety line	tree rules
4	miss	past	a jumping spider not said here	the fly	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus

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

Its web would catch it automatically

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	2 web	nmod:poss
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj
6	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	4 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	Its web	it				automatically property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It would fly back up

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	would	It						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would land on the fly anyway

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 land	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 land	aux
3	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 fly	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fly	det
6	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	obl
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 land	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	would	It					on the fly; anyway property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on fly=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would fall with nothing to stop it

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fall	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fall	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It					with nothing	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive		it					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality

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