Test 8 · ★ · Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones

«ugh a centipede and a millipede, which one's the hunter»

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be · To what, where: hunter

This is test 8 · ★ 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 centipede	punct
2	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	4 centipede	discourse
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 centipede	det
4	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 millipede	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 millipede	det
7	millipede	millipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 centipede	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunter	punct
9	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunter	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hunter	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hunter	det
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 centipede	appos
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 hunter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	which one	the hunter					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 millipede, fast with a sticky web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 millipede	det
2	millipede	millipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fast	punct
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 millipede	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 web	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 web	det
7	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 web	amod
8	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fast	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Neither, both of them eat only dead leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 eat	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 both	nmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 leaves	amod
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	both	dead leaves				neither property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 3

Both of them hunt only small frogs at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hunt	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 frogs	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 frogs	amod
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Both	small frogs			night		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The centipede, fast with venom claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 centipede	det
2	centipede	centipede	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fast	punct
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 centipede	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 claws	case
6	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claws	compound
7	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fast	obl

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

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