Test 9 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…
A shield bug looks just like a beetle. What would show it is a true bug?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shield bug, bug · What happens: look, show, be · To what, where: true bug · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A shield bug looks just like a beetle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bug | det |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bug | compound |
| 3 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 beetle | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 beetle | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 beetle | det |
| 8 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a shield bug | like a beetle | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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 would show it is a true bug?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 show | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | aux |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bug | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bug | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bug | det |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bug | amod |
| 8 | bug | bug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | would | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | bug | a true bug | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Its six legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 legs | nummod |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Its two feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feelers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 feelers | nummod |
| 3 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Its straw-like mouth for sucking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 like | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 straw | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouth | amod |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 sucking | mark |
| 7 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 mouth | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | gerund | Its like mouth not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Its hard, shiny back like a shield
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 back | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hard | punct |
| 4 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 back | amod |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 shield | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shield | det |
| 8 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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