Test 3 · ★ · Butterflies, moths and ladybirds

«mum says moths ate her jumper, so we gotta kill every moth in the garden» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, moths, we · What happens: say, eat, kill, be · To what, where: jumper, moth, garden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 219 «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» 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 says	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 jumper	nmod:poss
7	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 kill	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
11	gotta	gotta	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ate	conj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 moth	det
14	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ate	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	past	moths	mum's jumper			tree rules
3	kill in a quote		we	every moth	the garden		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moth=Theme
4	is	present				right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, only the caterpillars of a few kinds eat wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 caterpillars	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 caterpillars	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 caterpillars	det
5	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 kinds	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kinds	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kinds	amod
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 caterpillars	nmod
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the caterpillars of a few kinds	wool					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wool=Patient

Option 2

No, it was butterflies that ate it, not moths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 butterflies	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 butterflies	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 butterflies	cop
5	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 butterflies	acl:relcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 moths	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 moths	advmod
11	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 butterflies	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	butterflies and moths					tree rules
2	eat	past	butterflies and moths	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Yes, garden moths fly in at night to eat jumpers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 moths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moths	compound
4	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fly	advcl
11	jumpers	jumper	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in	present	garden moths				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	garden moths not said here	jumpers					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jumper=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every moth eats clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 moth	det
4	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eats	nsubj
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 eats	obj

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

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