Test 7 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

«worm's got loads of legs, look, it's walking» What is really helping it grip?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: worm, you · What happens: get, look, walk, help, grip · To what, where: loads, worm

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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	_	4 got	punct
2	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 look	advcl
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 legs	case
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loads	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 walking	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 walking	aux
13	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 look	advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 walking	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 helping	obj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 helping	aux
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 helping	advmod
18	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 walking	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 helping	obj
20	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 helping	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	worm	loads of legs	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus
2	look in a quote	imperative	you not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk in a quote	present · progressive	worm		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	present · progressive	worm not said here	worm	tree rules
5	grip	infinitive	worm not said here		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny bristles on its rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bristles	amod
2	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rings	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rings	nmod:poss
5	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bristles	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Its long sharp teeth

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	4 teeth	nmod:poss
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teeth	amod
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teeth	amod
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Sticky slime from its eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slime	amod
2	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 eyes	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slime	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Hundreds of little legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 legs	case
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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