Test 2 · ★★ · The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts

«HUGE spider in the bath, kill it, it'll bite me in my sleep» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: HUGE spider, spider, my · What happens: kill, bite, be, sleep · To what, where: bath, me, sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 335 «The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts» 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	_	3 spider	punct
2	HUGE	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bath	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bath	det
6	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spider	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spider	punct
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bite	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bite	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bite	aux
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kill	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bite	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 sleep	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sleep	nmod:poss
17	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bite	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 true	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	cop
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kill	parataxis
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 kill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	infinitive	HUGE spider in the bath	bath			tree rules
2	bite in a quote	future	spider	me	my sleep		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Patient in sleep=Location
3	is	present				true property	tree rules
4	sleep in a quote		my				nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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

It is most likely a harmless male house spider looking for a partner

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	9 spider	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 spider	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	9 spider	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spider	det
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spider	amod
7	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spider	compound
9	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 spider	acl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 partner	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 partner	det
13	partner	partner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a harmless house spider				likely property	tree rules
2	look	gerund	a harmless house spider not said here					for a partner	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for partner=Theme

Option 2

All big spiders are deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spiders	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spiders	amod
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deadly	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deadly	cop
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all big spiders					deadly property	tree rules

Option 3

It will lay eggs in your ear

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	3 lay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ear	nmod:poss
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	future	It	eggs		your ear			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in ear=Destination

Option 4

It came in from the cold garden to hunt sleeping people at night

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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 garden	amod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hunt	mark
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
10	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 people	amod
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hunt	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come in	past	It		the cold garden		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from garden=Initial_Location
2	hunt	to-infinitive		sleeping people		night	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	sleep	gerund					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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