Test 5 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…
In a cartoon, a cockroach dances with six legs and sings into a microphone with its mouth. How does a real cockroach breathe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cockroach, real cockroach · What happens: dance, sing, breathe · To what, where: cartoon, microphone
This is test 5 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a cockroach dances with six legs and sings into a microphone with its mouth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dances | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cockroach | det |
| 6 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dances | nsubj |
| 7 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 legs | case |
| 9 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 legs | nummod |
| 10 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dances | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sings | cc |
| 12 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dances | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 microphone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 microphone | det |
| 15 | microphone | microphone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sings | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sings | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dances | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | present | a cockroach | a cartoon | with six legs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | a cockroach not said here | a microphone | with cockroach's mouth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with mouth=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.
Sentence 2: How does a real cockroach breathe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 breathe | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 breathe | aux |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cockroach | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cockroach | amod |
| 5 | cockroach | cockroach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 breathe | nsubj |
| 6 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 breathe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present · do-support | a real cockroach | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Through little holes along its body
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 holes | case |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 holes | amod |
| 3 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 body | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Through its six legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 legs | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 legs | nummod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Through its mouth like a singer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 mouth | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 singer | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 singer | det |
| 6 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
It does not need air
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 need | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 need | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | It | air | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=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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