Test 6 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

«my sis says we eat 8 spiders a year in our sleep, gross» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis, we, our · What happens: say, eat, be, sleep · To what, where: 8 spiders, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sis	nmod:poss
3	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 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 eat	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl:unmarked
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sleep	case
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sleep	nmod:poss
13	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gross	punct
15	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sleep	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eat	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my sis					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat in a quote	present	we	8 spiders	our sleep and gross	year		tree rules
3	is	present					true property	tree rules
4	sleep in a quote		our					nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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

It is true, but only for children

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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 children	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 children	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 children	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There is no evidence for it, it spread without proof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 evidence	det
4	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 evidence	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 is	conj
10	without	without	ADP	_	11 proof	case
11	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no evidence for it			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spread	past	evidence					without proof	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is true for spiders but not insects

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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 spiders	case
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 insects	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 insects	advmod
8	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spiders	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for spiders but insects; true property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It is true, scientists counted them while people slept in labs

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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 counted	punct
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 counted	nsubj
6	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 true	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 counted	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 slept	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slept	nsubj
10	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 counted	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 labs	case
12	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			true property	tree rules
2	count	past	scientists	them = they			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sleep	past	people		labs		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lab=Location

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