Test 7 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures

Why do spiderlings balloon away instead of staying near home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do away, stay · To what, where: spiderlings balloon, home

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spiderlings	spiderling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balloon	compound
4	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 do	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 staying	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 do	advcl
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 staying	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do away	present		spiderlings balloon				away property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balloon=Eventuality
2	stay	gerund				home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near home=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Their mother chases them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chases	nsubj
3	chases	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chases	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 chases	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	present	Their mother	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Spreading out means they don't compete for the same food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spreading	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 means	csubj
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Spreading	compound:prt
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 compete	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 compete	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 compete	advmod
7	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 compete	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	spread out	gerund			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mean	present	Spreading		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not compete	present · do-support	they	for the same food	vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They are trying to reach the moon on their silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 reach	mark
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 silk	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 silk	nmod:poss
10	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	They						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	reach not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	the moon		their silk			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moon=Theme

Option 4

They want to find water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here	water					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic

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