Test 9 · ★ · Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones

What would happen to a garden spider's web if no flies came for a whole week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flies · What happens: happen, come

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 web	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	compound
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 web	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 spider	case
9	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 flies	det
12	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 week	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a garden spider's web	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come a condition, not said to happen	past	no flies				week		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The spider would turn into a fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 fly	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fly	det
7	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the spider					into a fly result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fly=Result

Option 2

The web would catch flies by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 web	det
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	the web	flies				by web	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The spider would go hungry and might eat and rebuild the web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eat	cc
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rebuild	cc
10	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 web	det
12	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rebuild	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	would	the spider		hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	might	the spider not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rebuild	infinitive	the spider not said here	the web		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result

Option 4

The web would keep on growing bigger and stronger all on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 web	det
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 growing	mark
6	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 growing	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stronger	cc
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bigger	conj
10	all	all	ADV	_	13 own	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the web					own property	tree rules
2	grow	gerund	the web not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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