Test 12 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

Why does a dead spider curl its legs underneath it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dead spider · What happens: curl · To what, where: legs

This is test 12 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 curl	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 curl	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 spider	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spider	amod
5	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 curl	nsubj
6	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 curl	obj
9	underneath	underneath	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 curl	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 curl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl	present · do-support	a dead spider	spider's legs				underneath it	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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

It is pretending to be a ball

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 pretending	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pretending	aux
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 ball	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ball	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	present · progressive	It						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive		a ball					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its legs are stretched by blood pressure, which is gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stretched	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	aux:pass
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pressure	compound
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gone	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gone	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gone	cop
11	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pressure	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	present · passive	blood pressure	Its legs					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	is	present	blood pressure					gone property	tree rules

Option 3

It always sleeps like that, curled up

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 sleeps	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 sleeps	advmod
3	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sleeps	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 curled	punct
7	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sleeps	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 curled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	It					like that; always property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	curl up	participle							vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is trying to keep warm

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 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive						warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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