Test 8 · ★★ · Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures
A sailor finds tiny spiders landing on his ship far out at sea. How did they get there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sailor, tiny spiders, spiders · What happens: find, land, get · To what, where: tiny spiders, ship
This is test 8 · ★★ 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: A sailor finds tiny spiders landing on his ship far out at sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sailor | det |
| 2 | sailor | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 finds | nsubj |
| 3 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spiders | amod |
| 5 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 finds | obj |
| 6 | landing | land | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 spiders | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ship | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 landing | obl |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 out | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 landing | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 landing | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | a sailor | tiny spiders | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic | ||||
| 2 | land | gerund | tiny spiders not said here | sailor's ship | at sea; out property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on ship=Destination |
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 did they get there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 get | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | spiders = spider | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They lived in the sails since the ship was built
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 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sails | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sails | det |
| 5 | sails | sail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 built | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ship | det |
| 8 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 built | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 built | aux:pass |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lived | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | They | the sails | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sail=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | past · passive | the ship | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
By ballooning on silk threads in the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 ballooning | mark |
| 2 | ballooning | balloon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 threads | case |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threads | compound |
| 5 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ballooning | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threads | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balloon | gerund | silk threads in the air | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
They were in the fish he caught
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 | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | in the fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | fish | the fish not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
Option 4
They swam from the shore
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 swam | nsubj |
| 2 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swam | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | They | the shore | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from shore=Trajectory |
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