Test 10 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

«that jumpy spider is looking right at me with them big eyes. creepy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jumpy spider, creepy · What happens: look, be · To what, where: big eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 244 «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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	_	6 looking	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 spider	det
3	jumpy	jumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spider	amod
4	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looking	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 looking	aux
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 right	csubj
7	right	right	ADV	_	9 me	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 looking	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 looking	obl
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 creepy	punct
15	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 right	nsubj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 creepy	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present · progressive	that jumpy spider	big eyes				at me; with them = they	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Attribute
2	is	present	creepy					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

Spiders are completely blind, so those eyes cannot see anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 eyes	det
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 blind	parataxis
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 see	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Spiders					blind, completely property	tree rules
2	not see	can	that eyes	anything		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 2

Those are fake eyes painted on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 eyes	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eyes	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eyes	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Those	fake eyes					tree rules
2	paint	participle		fake eyes not said here		its back			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on back=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It is only looking at the light behind you

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 looking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looking	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · progressive	It					behind you; at the light	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at light=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Jumping spiders really do see well and judge distance with their big front eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spiders	amod
2	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 see	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 judge	cc
8	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 see	conj
9	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 judge	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eyes	amod
13	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 eyes	amod
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 judge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	present · do-support	Jumping spiders		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	judge	present	Jumping spiders not said here	distance	with spiders's big front eyes	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent distance=Value

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