Test 9 · Minibeasts in the house: house spiders, silverfish, woodli…

Why do clothes moth caterpillars ignore cotton and plastic clothes?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: clothes · What happens: ignore · To what, where: cotton

This is test 9 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	6 ignore	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ignore	aux
3	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 ignore	nsubj
4	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caterpillars	compound
5	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clothes	conj
6	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ignore	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 clothes	cc
9	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clothes	compound
10	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 cotton	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ignore	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present · do-support	clothes and moth caterpillars	cotton and plastic clothes					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cotton=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

Cotton is too soft for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soft	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soft	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 soft	advmod
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cotton					for them = they; soft property	tree rules

Option 2

Plastic is poisonous only to moths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisonous	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poisonous	cop
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 moths	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 moths	case
6	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 poisonous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Plastic					to moths; poisonous property	tree rules

Option 3

They are afraid of bright colours

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 afraid	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 colours	case
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colours	amod
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					of bright colours; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They eat animal fibres like wool, fur and feathers

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	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fibres	compound
4	fibres	fibre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 wool	case
6	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fibres	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fur	punct
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fibres	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feathers	cc
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fibres	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	animal fibres and fur and feathers				like wool	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fibre=Patient

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