Test 4 · The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and ot…

«my sis has bugs in her eyelashes?? gross, she's dirty» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sis · What happens: have, be · To what, where: bugs, eyelashes

This is test 4 of lesson 259 «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 has	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 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eyelashes	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyelashes	nmod:poss
8	eyelashes	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bugs	nmod
9	??	??	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
10	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dirty	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 dirty	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dirty	cop
14	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gross	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 dirty	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gross	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	my sis	bugs	sis's eyelashes	gross property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	sis			dirty property	tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice

They come from not brushing teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 brushing	mark
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 brushing	advmod
5	brushing	brush	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	They						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not brush	gerund	They not said here	teeth					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Most adults have harmless eyelash mites; it is not about being dirty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 adults	amod
2	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mites	amod
5	eyelash	eyelash	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mites	compound
6	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 dirty	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dirty	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dirty	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 dirty	advmod
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 dirty	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 dirty	cop
13	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Most adults	harmless eyelash mites					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mite=Patient
2	not is	present	it					dirty property	tree rules

Option 3

Nobody has them except animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	obj
4	except	except	ADP	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nobody	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

Only dirty people who never wash their faces have them living there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 wash	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 wash	advmod
6	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 people	acl:relcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 faces	nmod:poss
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wash	obj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	obj
11	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 have	xcomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 living	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not wash	present	dirty people	people's faces		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	have	present	dirty people	faces = face		tree rules
3	live	gerund	faces = face not said here		there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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