Test 6 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

What would happen if an orb spider walked over the sticky spiral all the time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orb spider · What happens: happen, walk · To what, where: sticky spiral

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 walked	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	orb	orb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	compound
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	nsubj
8	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	over	over	ADP	_	12 spiral	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spiral	det
11	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spiral	amod
12	spiral	spiral	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 time	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walked	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	a orb spider			the sticky spiral	time		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over spiral=Trajectory

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

Nothing, spiders never stick to anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 spiders	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stick	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 stick	advmod
5	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stick	present	Nothing spiders					to anything	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to anything=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would spin faster

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 spin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spin	aux
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	would	It					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could get stuck and waste the glue

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 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 waste	cc
6	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glue	det
8	glue	glue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	It					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	waste	infinitive		the glue					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glue=Patient

Option 4

It would catch more flies

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 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 flies	amod
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	more flies					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

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