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Test 7 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…

«why's that beetle look like it's holding a shiny ball underwater?» What is it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beetle · What happens: look, hold, be · To what, where: shiny ball

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «why's that beetle look like it's holding a shiny ball underwater?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 look	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 beetle	det
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 holding	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 holding	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 holding	aux
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 look	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
14	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	10 holding	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	that beetle						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hold in a quote	present · progressive	beetle	a shiny ball				underwater property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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 is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

A beetle laying a glass egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 beetle	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 egg	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	compound
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	gerund	a beetle not said here	a glass egg					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2

A beetle with a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cold	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beetle	nmod

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

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

A diving beetle carrying a bubble of air to breathe

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	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beetle	compound
3	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 beetle	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bubble	det
6	bubble	bubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bubble	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 breathe	mark
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 carrying	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund	a diving beetle not said here	a bubble of air					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme
2	breathe	to-infinitive	a diving beetle not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A beetle blowing bubbles for fun to show off to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 beetle	acl
4	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blowing	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fun	case
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blowing	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 show	mark
8	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 blowing	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 show	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 others	case
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	a beetle not said here	bubbles				for fun	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bubble=Product for fun=Beneficiary
2	show off	to-infinitive	a beetle not said here		others				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient

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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