Test 11 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of Everest?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jumping spider, plants · What happens: jump, live, grow · To what, where: top

This is test 11 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 live	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spider	det
4	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 spider	amod
5	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 grow	advcl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 grow	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 plants	det
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	nsubj
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 top	punct
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 top	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 top	det
14	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grow	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Everest	case
16	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 top	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	jump	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	can	a jumping spider		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	present	no plants	the top of Everest	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near top=Location

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

It flies down every day to hunt in the valleys far below

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 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 flies	compound:prt
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flies	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 valleys	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valleys	det
10	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obl
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 below	advmod
12	below	below	ADV	_	7 hunt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	present	It				day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	to-infinitive				the valleys		below property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It eats rocks

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 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The wind carries insects up the mountain for it to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	nsubj
3	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carries	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carries	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carries	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 eat	mark
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 carries	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	the wind	insects				up the mountain; for mountain	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	the wind not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It does not need any food at all for months

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	4 need	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 food	det
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 need	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 months	case
10	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	It	any food		all	month		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

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