Test 1 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

«ew, who eats bugs, nobody normal» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: bugs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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	_	5 eats	punct
2	ew	ew	INTJ	Number=Sing	5 eats	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 eats	nsubj
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eats	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 normal	punct
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 normal	nsubj
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bugs	nmod
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 normal	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 normal	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present		bugs normal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient
2	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

Only people in films and TV shows eat bugs, for a dare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 films	case
4	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shows	cc
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shows	compound
7	shows	show	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	conj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dare	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 dare	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dare	det
13	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	people in films and TV shows	bugs				for a dare	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

Option 2

Nobody in the world eats them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 eats	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	nmod
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Nobody	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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

About 2 billion people eat insects as a normal food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 billion	advmod
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 billion	compound
3	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 people	nummod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 food	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 food	det
9	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	billion people	insects				as a normal food	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

Option 4

Only animals eat bugs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 animals	advmod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	animals	bugs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

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