Test 3 · Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps
You wipe your finger across a line of ants on the patio. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: wipe, happen · To what, where: finger, line
This is test 3 of lesson 36 «Insects: six legs, three parts; ants, bees and wasps» 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: You wipe your finger across a line of ants on the patio.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 wipe | nsubj |
| 2 | wipe | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wipe | obj |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wipe | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ants | case |
| 9 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 line | nmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 patio | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 patio | det |
| 12 | patio | patio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ants | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wipe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe | present | You | your finger | a line of ants on the patio | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent finger=Theme across line=Trajectory |
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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They all march straight on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 march | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 march | advmod |
| 3 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 march | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | They | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
They all turn round and make a brand new line in another place at once
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 turn | advmod |
| 3 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turn | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 make | cc |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turn | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 line | det |
| 8 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 9 new | advmod |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 line | amod |
| 10 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turn | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | present | They | another place | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Source at once=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | make | infinitive | They not said here | a new line | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset line=Product |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They get confused and wander until they find the smell again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wander | cc |
| 5 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | conj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 get | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smell | det |
| 10 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 find | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | They | confused property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wander | present | They not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | present | they | the smell | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic |
Option 4
They bite your finger and die
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bite | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 die | cc |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bite | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | They | your finger | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | die | infinitive | They not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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