Test 6 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

«that cocoon's tiny, the thread must be like 2 cm» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiny thread, 2 cm · What happens: be

This is test 6 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	_	5 tiny	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 cocoon	det
3	cocoon	cocoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 cocoon	case
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thread	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tiny	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thread	det
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cm	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cm	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cm	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 cm	case
12	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 cm	nummod
13	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cm	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cm	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 cm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	must	the tiny thread					like 2 cm	tree rules
2	is	present	2 cm					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, it is about 2 cm long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 cm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cm	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cm	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 2	advmod
6	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 cm	nummod
7	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	2 cm					tree rules

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

One thread can be longer than five football pitches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 thread	nummod
2	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 longer	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 longer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 longer	cop
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 pitches	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 pitches	nummod
8	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pitches	compound
9	pitches	pitch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	One thread					than five football pitches; long property	tree rules

Option 3

It is as long as one ruler

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 long	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 ruler	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 ruler	nummod
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					as one ruler; long property	tree rules

Option 4

It is made of no thread at all, only of dried hardened spit

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 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 thread	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 thread	det
6	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 made	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spit	punct
10	only	only	ADV	_	14 spit	advmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 spit	case
12	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spit	amod
13	hardened	harden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spit	amod
14	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive	It	all	of no thread; of dried hardened spit	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	harden	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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