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Test 8 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind. What might be helping it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiny spider · What happens: rise, help · To what, where: air, spider

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	nsubj
4	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
10	still	still	ADV	_	12 day	advmod
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	compound
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rises	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 day	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	present	a tiny spider			the air	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial_Location

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.

Sentence 2: What might be helping it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 helping	obj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 helping	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 helping	aux
4	helping	help	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helping	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 helping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	might · progressive		spider					tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Earth's electric field pulling on its silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 field	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 field	amod
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 field	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 silk	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 silk	nmod:poss
9	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund	the Earth's electric field not said here					on field's silk	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on silk=Theme

Option 2

Warm water underneath it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 water	nmod

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

Option 3

A bird carrying it in its beak for miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bird	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carrying	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 beak	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 beak	nmod:poss
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carrying	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 miles	case
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	a bird not said here	bird		bird's beak		for miles	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in beak=Location

Option 4

Its tiny hidden wings flapping very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wings	nmod:poss
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wings	amod
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wings	amod
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wings	acl
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 flapping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	gerund	Its tiny hidden wings not said here					fast property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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