Test 1 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

«big spider in the bath, it came up the plughole, I'm never showering again» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big spider, I · What happens: come up, not shower, be · To what, where: plughole

This is test 1 of lesson 370 «Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodlice, moths and cockroaches» 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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	12 plughole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plughole	det
12	plughole	plughole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 showering	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 showering	nsubj
15	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 showering	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 showering	advmod
17	showering	shower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 came	advcl
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 showering	advmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 showering	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 true	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 showering	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come up in a quote	past	big spider in the bath	the plughole			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plughole=Theme
2	not shower in a quote	present · progressive	I		again		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				true 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

Spiders live inside the taps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 taps	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 taps	det
5	taps	tap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Spiders			the taps			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside tap=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It almost certainly fell in; the water trap stops spiders coming up

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	4 fell	nsubj
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 certainly	advmod
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 stops	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trap	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trap	compound
9	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stops	nsubj
10	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
11	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stops	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 spiders	acl
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall in	past	It		certainly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	the water trap	spiders		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality spider=Eventuality
3	come up	gerund	spiders not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was sent by the neighbours

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 sent	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	aux:pass
3	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 neighbours	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 neighbours	det
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past · passive	the neighbours	It					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 4

Spiders swim up drains every night looking for warm baths to sleep in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	nsubj
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 swim	compound:prt
4	drains	drain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swim	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swim	obl:unmarked
7	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 swim	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 baths	case
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 baths	amod
10	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looking	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sleep	mark
12	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 looking	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	12 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	present	Spiders	drains	night		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drain=Trajectory
2	look	gerund	Spiders not said here			for warm baths	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bath=Theme
3	sleep in	to-infinitive	Spiders not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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