Test 7 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

What would happen if a spider walked across the sticky spiral of its own web carelessly?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: spider · What happens: happen, walk · To what, where: sticky spiral

This is test 7 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	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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 walked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spider	det
6	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	across	across	ADP	_	11 spiral	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spiral	det
10	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spiral	amod
11	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 web	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 web	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 web	amod
15	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spiral	nmod
16	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	7 walked	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	a spider			the sticky spiral of spider's own web		carelessly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across spiral=Trajectory

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 web would turn to water

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 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 water	mark
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the web	water					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could get stuck, which is why it keeps to the dry spokes

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 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 why	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	cop
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 keeps	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 spokes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 spokes	det
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spokes	amod
14	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	could	It	stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present		why property	tree rules
3	keep	present	it	to the dry spokes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The spider would sink through 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 sink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sink	aux
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 web	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 web	det
7	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	the spider			the web			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all, because every thread of the whole web is dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 dry	mark
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 thread	det
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dry	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 web	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 web	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 web	amod
11	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thread	nmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dry	cop
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every thread of the whole web					dry property	tree rules

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