Test 6 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

Which animal kills the most people each year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: kill · To what, where: most people

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	nsubj
3	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kills	obj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kills	obl:unmarked
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kills	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present	which animal	the most people			year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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

The lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The crocodile, because it hides in rivers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crocodile	det
2	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hides	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 hides	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hides	nsubj
6	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crocodile	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rivers	case
8	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	crocodile	the crocodile not said here		rivers			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crocodile=Patient in river=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The mosquito, because some carry malaria

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mosquito	det
2	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 carry	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 carry	mark
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 carry	nsubj
6	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mosquito	acl:relcl
7	malaria	malaria	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	some	malaria					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malaria=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The shark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shark	det
2	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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