Test 8 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

«moths ate my mum's wool jumper, they've got tiny teeth» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moths · What happens: eat, get, be · To what, where: wool jumper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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 ate	punct
2	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 true	csubj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumper	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 mum	case
7	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jumper	compound
8	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
11	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	aux
12	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 teeth	amod
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teeth	amod
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	moths	my mum's wool jumper		tree rules
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	moths = moth			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The caterpillars did it; adult clothes moths do not eat at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 caterpillars	det
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
6	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moths	amod
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 moths	compound
8	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 eat	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 eat	advmod
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the caterpillars	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	not eat	present · do-support	adult clothes moths			all			tree rules

Option 2

Adult moths chew holes with sharp teeth hidden under their furry heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 moths	amod
2	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	nsubj
3	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 teeth	case
6	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 teeth	amod
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chew	obl
8	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 teeth	acl
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 heads	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 heads	nmod:poss
11	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heads	amod
12	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hidden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	present	Adult moths	holes				with sharp teeth	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	hide	participle		sharp teeth not said here		moths's furry heads			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under head=Location

Option 3

The jumper wore out by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jumper	det
2	jumper	jumper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wore	nsubj
3	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 wore	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	past	the jumper					by jumper	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Moths eat only cotton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 cotton	advmod
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Moths	cotton					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=Patient

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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