Test 11 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…

«a car ran over that beetle and it just walked off?? no way» Which beetle could this be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car · What happens: run, walk off · To what, where: way

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 306 «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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 ran	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 beetle	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 beetle	det
7	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walked	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walked	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 walked	advmod
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 walked	compound:prt
13	??	??	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 way	punct
17	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	18 beetle	det
18	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 be	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 be	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 walked	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run in a quote	past	a car					over that beetle	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over beetle=Trajectory
2	walk off in a quote	past	car	no way					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

The diabolical ironclad beetle, with very strong armour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
2	diabolical	diabolical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beetle	amod
3	ironclad	ironclad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beetle	compound
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 armour	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 armour	case
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 strong	advmod
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 armour	amod
9	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beetle	conj

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

Option 2

A titan beetle, because it is the biggest and so the strongest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beetle	det
2	titan	titan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	compound
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 biggest	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 biggest	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 biggest	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 biggest	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 biggest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 biggest	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strongest	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 strongest	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strongest	det
13	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 biggest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a titan beetle					big property	tree rules
2	be		a titan beetle not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Any beetle, they are all unbreakable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 unbreakable	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 beetle	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unbreakable	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 unbreakable	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 unbreakable	advmod
7	unbreakable	unbreakable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	any beetle					all, unbreakable property	tree rules

Option 4

A ladybird, which is made of rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladybird	det
2	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ladybird	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 rubber	case
8	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		a ladybird				of rubber	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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