Test 7 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

shut up, flies dont have taste, they just land on stuff. who's right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: shut up, fly, have, land, be · To what, where: taste, stuff

This is test 7 · ★ 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	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flies	punct
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 shut	parataxis
5	dont	dont	X	Foreign=Yes	6 have	discourse
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flies	ccomp
7	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 land	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 land	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 land	advmod
11	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 flies	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 stuff	case
13	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 land	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 right	nsubj
16	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 shut	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut up	imperative	you not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fly	present					tree rules
3	have	present		taste			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient
4	land	present	they		stuff		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on stuff=Destination
5	is	present				right 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

Flies have no taste at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 taste	det
4	taste	taste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 taste	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Flies	no taste		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Patient

Option 2

Flies taste with their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 wings	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Flies					with Flies's wings	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Flies taste with their feet as they land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	obl
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 land	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 land	nsubj
8	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 taste	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Flies					with Flies's feet	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	land	present	Flies = fly						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Flies taste only with their big eyes as they land on things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	nsubj
2	taste	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 taste	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taste	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 land	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 land	nsubj
10	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 taste	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 things	case
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	Flies					with Flies's big eyes	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	land	present	Flies = fly			things			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on thing=Destination

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