Test 10 · ★ · Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones

«lift the stone, quick, what's under there» Which animals are you most likely to find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, animals · What happens: lift, be, find · To what, where: stone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 220 «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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	_	2 lift	punct
2	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lift	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lift	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 there	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 there	case
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lift	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 there	punct
13	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	14 animals	det
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 likely	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 likely	cop
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 likely	nsubj
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 likely	advmod
18	likely	likely	ADV	_	11 there	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 find	mark
20	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 likely	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 lift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lift in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the stone		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	is in a quote	present			there property	tree rules
3	is	present	which animals		likely property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	which animals not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Snakes and lizards only, curled up asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 curled	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 lizards	cc
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snakes	conj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 curled	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 curled	punct
6	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 curled	compound:prt
8	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 curled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	participle · passive		Snakes and lizards				asleep property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Spiders' eggs only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eggs	nmod:poss
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Spiders	case
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 eggs	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Woodlice, beetles and centipedes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woodlice	Woodlice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 beetles	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Woodlice	punct
3	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 centipedes	cc
5	centipedes	centipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 beetles	conj

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

Option 4

Butterflies and bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bees	cc
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Butterflies	conj

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

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