Test 10 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures
A black widow with a red hourglass on its belly is in a documentary. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: black widow · What happens: be · To what, where: documentary
This is test 10 · ★★ 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: A black widow with a red hourglass on its belly is in a documentary.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 widow | amod |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 documentary | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hourglass | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hourglass | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hourglass | amod |
| 7 | hourglass | hourglass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 widow | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 belly | case |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 belly | nmod:poss |
| 10 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hourglass | nmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 documentary | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 documentary | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 documentary | det |
| 14 | documentary | documentary | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 documentary | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a black widow with a red hourglass on widow's belly | a documentary | 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: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is harmless like all spiders
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 | 3 harmless | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 harmless | cop |
| 3 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 spiders | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 spiders | det |
| 6 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 harmless | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | like all spiders; harmless property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It is one of the few spiders dangerous to people, and antivenoms exist
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 | 3 one | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spiders | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spiders | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spiders | amod |
| 7 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 8 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spiders | amod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dangerous | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exist | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exist | cc |
| 13 | antivenoms | antivenom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 exist | nsubj |
| 14 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 one | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | one | of the few spiders | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exist | present | antivenoms | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
It is a kind of beetle
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 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beetle | case |
| 6 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a kind | of beetle | tree rules |
Option 4
It lives in every British house, hiding in the corners and the bath
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 | 2 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 house | det |
| 5 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hiding | punct |
| 8 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lives | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 corners | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 corners | det |
| 11 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hiding | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bath | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bath | det |
| 14 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 corners | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | It | every British house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | gerund | the corners and the bath | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |
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