Test 7 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

«my bro says silk comes from a plant like cotton» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro, silk, cotton · What happens: say, come, be · To what, where: plant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 plant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plant	det
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 cotton	case
11	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plant	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 cotton	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 cotton	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my bro			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	present	silk	a plant like cotton		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plant=Initial_Location
3	is	present	cotton		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, silk is a protein spun by the silkworm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 protein	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 protein	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 protein	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 protein	det
6	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 protein	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 silkworm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 silkworm	det
10	silkworm	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spun	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	silk	a protein					tree rules
2	spin	participle		a protein not said here				by the silkworm	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by silkworm=Trajectory

Option 2

Yes, from cotton flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 flowers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flowers	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
4	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, it comes from sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 comes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 sheep	case
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	it					from sheep	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sheep=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yes, from the bark of the mulberry tree that silkworms eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bark	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 bark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bark	det
5	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	mulberry	mulberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bark	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 eat	obj
11	silkworms	silkworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tree	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	silkworms	the mulberry tree					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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