Test 7 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

Why would cleaning crumbs and fixing drips help more against cockroaches than spraying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: clean, fix, help, spray · To what, where: crumbs, drips, more

This is test 7 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	3 cleaning	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cleaning	aux
3	cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 help	nsubj
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cleaning	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fixing	cc
6	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cleaning	conj
7	drips	drip	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fixing	obj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 help	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	11 cockroaches	case
11	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 more	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 spraying	mark
13	spraying	spray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 more	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	clean	would	crumbs	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
2	fix	gerund	drips	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drip=Patient
3	help	present	more	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Beneficiary
4	spray	gerund		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cockroaches need food and water, so without them they leave or die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 leave	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 leave	advmod
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	nsubj
11	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 need	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 die	cc
13	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 leave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	Cockroaches	food and water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
2	leave	present	Cockroaches = cockroach		without Cockroaches = cockroach	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	present	Cockroaches = cockroach not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Spray makes them stronger and bigger, so it never works at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spray	spray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bigger	cc
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stronger	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 works	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 works	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 works	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 works	advmod
11	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	parataxis
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Spray	them = they				strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product
2	not work	present	Spray					at all	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme

Option 3

Drips are where cockroaches lay eggs only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drips	drip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	cop
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 lay	advmod
4	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	nsubj
5	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod

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

Option 4

Cockroaches are scared of clean floors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 floors	case
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floors	amod
6	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cockroaches					of clean floors; scared property	tree rules

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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