Test 2 · ★ · Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones

«my cousin says u swallow 8 spiders a year when ur asleep» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, u · What happens: say, swallow, be · To what, where: 8 spiders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cousin	nmod:poss
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 swallow	nsubj
6	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 spiders	nummod
8	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swallow	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallow	obl:unmarked
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 asleep	advmod
12	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 asleep	nmod:poss
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallow	advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 swallow	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 swallow	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my cousin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	swallow in a quote	present	u	8 spiders	year		tree rules
3	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 · ← Mova's choice

True, it is a proven fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fact	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fact	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fact	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fact	det
6	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fact	amod
7	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a True proven fact					tree rules

Option 2

True, but you breathe them out again before you wake up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 breathe	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 breathe	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 breathe	nsubj
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 breathe	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 breathe	compound:prt
8	again	again	ADV	_	5 breathe	advmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 wake	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 wake	nsubj
11	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 wake	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe out	present	you	them = they			again		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	wake up	present	you						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

True, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is a myth; spiders avoid sleeping, breathing people

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 myth	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 myth	det
4	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 avoid	punct
6	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 avoid	nsubj
7	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 myth	parataxis
8	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 avoid	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 breathing	punct
10	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sleeping	conj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 breathing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		a myth	tree rules
2	avoid	present	spiders		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	sleep	gerund	spiders not said here		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	breathe	gerund	spiders not said here	people	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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