Test 4 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures
Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: daddy longlegs, Popular myth, truth · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: venomous spider
This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Popular myth: the daddy longlegs is the most venomous spider but its fangs are too small to bite.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 myth | amod |
| 2 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 small | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 spider | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 longlegs | det |
| 5 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 longlegs | compound |
| 6 | longlegs | longleg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spider | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spider | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spider | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 venomous | advmod |
| 10 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spider | amod |
| 11 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 myth | appos |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fangs | cc |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fangs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spider | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 small | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 small | advmod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bite | mark |
| 19 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 small | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 small | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the daddy longlegs | the venomous spider but myth's fangs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Popular myth | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bite | to-infinitive | Popular myth not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
It is deadly but cannot bite
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 deadly | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deadly | cop |
| 3 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 bite | cc |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bite | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 bite | advmod |
| 7 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 deadly | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bite | can | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It is not a spider and has no venom glands at all
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 | 5 spider | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spider | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 spider | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 has | cc |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spider | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 glands | det |
| 9 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glands | compound |
| 10 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 has | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 glands | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | It | a spider | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | no venom glands | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |
Option 3
It is a kind of wasp
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 wasp | case |
| 6 | wasp | wasp | 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 wasp | tree rules |
Option 4
It is deadly to dogs and cats, but its bite does no harm to people
The tree, 15 words
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 deadly | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deadly | cop |
| 3 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 dogs | case |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 deadly | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cats | cc |
| 7 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dogs | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 does | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 does | cc |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bite | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 does | nsubj |
| 12 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 deadly | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 harm | det |
| 14 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 does | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 does | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | to dogs and cats; deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | its bite | no harm | to people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | bite | its = it | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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