Test 10 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

Why do woodlice die quickly on a sunny, dry pavement?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woodlice · What happens: die · To what, where: sunny dry pavement

This is test 10 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 die	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	woodlice	woodlice	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 pavement	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pavement	det
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pavement	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sunny	punct
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pavement	amod
11	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · do-support	woodlice			a sunny dry pavement		quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

They get lost and starve

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 lost	nsubj
2	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 starve	cc
5	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		They					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	starve	infinitive							tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their breathing parts dry out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 parts	nmod:poss
2	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 parts	compound
3	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dry	nsubj
4	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 dry	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	present	Their breathing parts						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They are too cold

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

The sun burns their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burns	nsubj
3	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wings	nmod:poss
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 burns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	present	the sun	their wings					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wing=Theme

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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