Test 11 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous

«why glow a scorpion with a lamp, scorpion disco?»

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: glow · To what, where: scorpion

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 188 «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 glow	advmod
3	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 scorpion	det
5	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 lamp	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lamp	det
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 disco	punct
10	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disco	compound
11	disco	disco	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lamp	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 glow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a scorpion				with a lamp and scorpion disco	tree rules

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

To change their colour forever, so that they look prettier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 change	mark
2	change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 colour	nmod:poss
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 change	obj
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	2 change	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
7	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	10 look	mark
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 so	fixed
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 look	nsubj
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 change	advcl
11	prettier	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	to-infinitive		their colour				forever property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
2	look	present	they					pretty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

To warm them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warm	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 warm	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	to-infinitive		them = they					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scientists use UV lamps to find scorpions at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	UV	ultra-violet	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	4 lamps	compound
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl
7	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Scientists	UV lamps					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	Scientists not said here	scorpions			night		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Topic

Option 4

To make them dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		them = they					tree rules
2	dance	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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