Test 5 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures
In a cartoon a spider has six legs and two feelers. How would you correct the drawing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spider, you · What happens: have, correct · To what, where: six legs, cartoon, drawing
This is test 5 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon a spider has six legs and two feelers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 legs | nummod |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feelers | cc |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feelers | nummod |
| 11 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 legs | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a spider | six legs and two feelers | a cartoon | vn birth-28.2-1 «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.
Sentence 2: How would you correct the drawing?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 correct | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 correct | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 correct | nsubj |
| 4 | correct | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drawing | det |
| 6 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 correct | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 correct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correct speech: disagree | would | you | the drawing | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent drawing=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Give it four legs and a long tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 legs | nummod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tail | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tail | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tail | amod |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | four legs and a long tail | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient leg=Theme |
Option 2
It is already correct
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 correct | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 correct | cop |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 correct | advmod |
| 4 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | correct property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Give it eight legs and no feelers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 legs | nummod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feelers | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 feelers | det |
| 7 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | eight legs and no feelers | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient leg=Theme |
Option 4
Give it ten legs and wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 legs | nummod |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wings | cc |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | ten legs and wings | it | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient leg=Theme |
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