Test 1 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

«silkworms are just worms innit, like in the garden» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: silkworms, garden · What happens: be · To what, where: worms innit

This is test 1 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
2	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 innit	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 innit	advmod
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 garden	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 garden	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 garden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garden	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 innit	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 garden	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 garden	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	silkworms	worms innit and the garden					tree rules
2	is	present	the garden					right property	tree rules

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

Yes, they are earthworms that spin silk out of mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 earthworms	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 earthworms	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earthworms	cop
5	earthworms	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spin	nsubj
7	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earthworms	acl:relcl
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 mud	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mud	case
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	earthworms					tree rules
2	spin	present	earthworms	silk		mud			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent silk=Theme out mud=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they are caterpillars that turn into moths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 caterpillars	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caterpillars	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caterpillars	cop
5	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caterpillars	acl:relcl
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 moths	case
9	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	caterpillars					tree rules
2	turn	present	caterpillars			moths			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into moth=Trajectory

Option 3

No, they are baby snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 snakes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 snakes	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 snakes	cop
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 snakes	compound
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	baby snakes					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, they live in soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 soil	case
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they			soil			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location

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