Test 9 · More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' bed…

Why did nobody need to teach wasps to make paper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody, wasps · What happens: need, teach, make · To what, where: wasps, paper

This is test 9 of lesson 245 «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 need	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 teach	mark
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 teach	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 teach	xcomp
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	past · do-support	nobody		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	teach speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	wasps	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wasp=Recipient clause=Topic
3	make	to-infinitive	wasps not said here	paper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset paper=Product

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

Wasps copy paper from the old newspapers in people's rubbish bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	nsubj
2	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copy	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 newspapers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 newspapers	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 newspapers	amod
7	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 bins	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bins	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 people	case
11	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bins	compound
12	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	present	Wasps	paper		the old newspapers		in people's rubbish bins	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paper=Theme in bin=Destination

Option 2

Wasps buy paper from paper mills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	nsubj
2	buy	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 buy	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mills	case
5	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mills	compound
6	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	Wasps	paper		paper mills			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent paper=Theme from mill=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wasps made paper from wood millions of years before people did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 millions	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 millions	compound
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Wasps	paper		wood millions of years			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset paper=Product from million=Material
2	do	past	people						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

People taught wasps how to make it in the 1800s

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taught	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 make	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 taught	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 1800s	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 1800s	det
10	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	6 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	People	wasps					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wasp=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	wasps not said here	it		the 1800s			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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