Test 12 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

Why would leaving crumbs on the floor at night be an invitation to cockroaches?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: leave, be · To what, where: crumbs, floor, invitation

This is test 12 of lesson 397 «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» 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	3 leaving	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leaving	aux
3	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 invitation	csubj
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaving	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaving	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaving	obl
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 invitation	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 invitation	det
12	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 cockroaches	case
14	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 invitation	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 invitation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would		crumbs		the floor	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on floor=Location
2	is a	imperative	you not said here	a invitation				to cockroaches	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

Cockroaches come out at night looking for crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 come	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 crumbs	case
8	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Cockroaches				night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	look	gerund	Cockroaches not said here					for crumbs	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for crumb=Theme

Option 2

Crumbs scare cockroaches away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	nsubj
2	scare	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scare	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare away	present	Crumbs	cockroaches				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cockroach=Experiencer

Option 3

Cockroaches eat only in daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 daylight	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj

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

Option 4

Crumbs make cockroaches sleepy, so they stay under the fridge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 stay	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stay	nsubj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	conj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 fridge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fridge	det
11	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Crumbs	cockroaches				sleepy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cockroach=Product
2	stay	present	Crumbs = crumb			the fridge			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under fridge=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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