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Test 8 · ★ · Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites

A fly buzzes behind a spider and the spider turns to face it without seeing it. How?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fly, spider · What happens: buzz, turn, face, see · To what, where: spider

This is test 8 · ★ 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 fly buzzes behind a spider and the spider turns to face it without seeing it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fly	det
2	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzes	nsubj
3	buzzes	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 spider	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spider	det
6	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buzzes	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 turns	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spider	det
9	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turns	nsubj
10	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzes	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 face	mark
12	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 turns	xcomp
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 face	obj
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 seeing	mark
15	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 face	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seeing	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buzzes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	present	a fly			a spider			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind spider=Location
2	turn	present	the spider						tree rules
3	face	to-infinitive	the spider not said here	spider					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
4	see	gerund	the spider not said here	spider					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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.

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 · ← Mova's choice

It smelled the fly's breath

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 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fly	det
4	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breath	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fly	case
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	It	the fly's breath					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer breath=Stimulus

Option 2

It saw the fly in a mirror

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 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fly	det
4	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mirror	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mirror	det
7	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	It	the fly		a mirror			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus

Option 3

It guessed by luck

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 guessed	nsubj
2	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 luck	case
4	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	It					by luck	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its leg hairs felt the air moving

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 hairs	nmod:poss
2	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hairs	compound
3	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 felt	nsubj
4	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 felt	obj
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 air	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Its leg hairs	the air					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
2	move	gerund	the air not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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