Test 9 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

«grown-up stick insect lost a leg, it'll grow back next time it sheds» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grown stick insect, insect · What happens: grow up, lose, grow back, shed, be · To what, where: leg

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
2	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 insect	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 up	punct
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 grown	compound:prt
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insect	compound
6	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 leg	det
9	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lost	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grow	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	aux
13	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 grow	advmod
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sheds	obl:unmarked
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sheds	nsubj
18	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 grow	advcl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 sheds	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 wrong	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 wrong	cop
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sheds	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow up in a quote	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose in a quote	past	grown stick insect	a leg			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
3	grow back in a quote	future	insect				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shed in a quote	present	insect		time		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	is	present				wrong 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Grown-up stick insects no longer shed, so the leg will not grow back

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 insects	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 up	punct
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Grown	compound:prt
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insects	compound
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shed	nsubj
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 shed	advmod
8	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	15 grow	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leg	det
12	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grow	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grow	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 grow	advmod
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shed	ccomp
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grow up	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shed	past	Grown stick insects	long property	tree rules
3	not grow back	future	the leg		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Legs grow back only on the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	2 grow	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Legs			the head			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location

Option 3

Nothing is wrong, every stick insect regrows any lost leg each week of its life

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 regrows	punct
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 insect	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 insect	compound
7	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regrows	nsubj
8	regrows	regrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 leg	det
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 leg	amod
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regrows	obj
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 week	det
13	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regrows	obl:unmarked
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 life	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 week	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing			wrong property	tree rules
2	regrow	present	every stick insect	any lost leg	week		tree rules
3	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Stick insects never lose legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insects	compound
2	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 lose	advmod
4	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lose	present	Stick insects	legs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality

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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