Test 12 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

A stick insect is half a metre long with its legs out. Why might a bird still miss it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stick insect, bird · What happens: be, miss · To what, where: metre, insect

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 stick insect is half a metre long with its legs out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 insect	det
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insect	compound
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 metre	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 metre	cop
5	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	7 metre	det:predet
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 metre	det
7	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 metre	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 legs	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 legs	nmod:poss
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 metre	nmod
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 legs	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 metre	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a stick insect	half metre				with insect's legs; long 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.

Sentence 2: Why might a bird still miss it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 miss	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 miss	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 miss	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 miss	advmod
6	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 miss	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 miss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	might	a bird	insect			still		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It looks and sways like a twig, so the bird ignores it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sways	cc
4	sways	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 twig	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 twig	det
7	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sways	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ignores	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 ignores	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ignores	nsubj
12	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 looks	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ignores	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	It			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	sway	present			like a twig	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ignore	present	the bird	twig		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It sings to scare birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sings	nsubj
2	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scare	mark
4	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sings	xcomp
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	It						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scare	to-infinitive		birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 3

Birds cannot see anything long and thin, only round things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 see	obj
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anything	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thin	cc
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 things	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 things	advmod
11	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Birds	anything				round things obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

It hides under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	It			water			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under water=Location

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