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Test 1 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

My mate says spiders are insects cos they're creepy-crawlies. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, spiders · What happens: say, be · To what, where: insects · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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: My mate says spiders are insects cos they're creepy-crawlies.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 insects	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insects	cop
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 says	ccomp
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 crawlies	case
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crawlies	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 crawlies	cop
10	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crawlies	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 crawlies	punct
12	crawlies	crawly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 insects	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	spiders	insects					tree rules
3	is	present	spiders = spider					cos creepy crawlies	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.

Sentence 2: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, but only small spiders

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 spiders	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 spiders	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 spiders	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spiders	amod
6	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, spiders are crustaceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 crustaceans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crustaceans	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crustaceans	cop
5	crustaceans	crustacean	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	spiders	crustaceans					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, all the creepy-crawlies in the garden are insects of some kind

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 insects	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 crawlies	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crawlies	det
5	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crawlies	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 creepy	punct
7	crawlies	crawly	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 insects	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 garden	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 garden	det
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crawlies	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 insects	cop
12	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kind	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 kind	det
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 insects	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	all creepy crawlies in the garden	insects				of some kind	tree rules

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

No, spiders are arachnids with eight legs and two body parts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 arachnids	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arachnids	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 arachnids	cop
5	arachnids	arachnid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 legs	nummod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arachnids	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 parts	cc
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 parts	nummod
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 parts	compound
12	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arachnids	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	spiders	arachnids and two body parts				with eight legs	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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