Test 2 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

«spidey shoots webs out his wrists innit, real spiders do that too right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spidey shoots, real spiders · What happens: web out, do, be · To what, where: wrists innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	4 webs	punct
2	spidey	spidey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoots	amod
3	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 webs	nsubj
4	webs	web	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 webs	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 innit	nmod:poss
7	wrists	wrist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 webs	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spiders	amod
11	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 webs	conj
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 right	nsubj
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 right	advmod
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 do	ccomp
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 right	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	15 right	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 webs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	web out in a quote	present	spidey shoots	his wrists innit		tree rules
2	do in a quote	present	real spiders			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
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

Yes, from their mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 mouths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 mouths	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouths	nmod:poss
5	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, silk comes from spinnerets at the back of the body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 silk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 spinnerets	case
6	spinnerets	spinneret	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spinnerets	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 body	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 body	det
12	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	silk			spinnerets at the back of the body			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from spinneret=Initial_Location

Option 3

Yes, from the tips of their front legs, like threads from a reel

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 tips	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tips	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 tips	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tips	det
5	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 legs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
8	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 legs	amod
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tips	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threads	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 threads	case
12	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 legs	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 reel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reel	det
15	reel	reel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threads	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, real spiders cannot make silk at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spiders	amod
4	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	can	real spiders	silk		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silk=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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