Test 8 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

Why is it so hard to swat a fly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 swat	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swat	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 swat	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 swat	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 swat	mark
7	swat	swat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fly	det
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swat	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 swat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					hard, swat 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

Its eyes see movement very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Its eyes	movement				fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus

Option 2

It can turn invisible for a moment

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 turn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 moment	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moment	det
7	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	It				moment	invisible property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It can hear your thoughts before you move

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 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thoughts	nmod:poss
5	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 move	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 move	nsubj
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hear	can	It	your thoughts	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thought=Stimulus
2	move	present	you		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	think		your		nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It has extra eyes on its feet and wings

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eyes	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wings	cc
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	extra eyes		its feet and wings			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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