Test 4 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

«cockroaches'd survive the end of the world, mate» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cockroaches · What happens: survive, be · To what, where: end, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 survive	punct
2	cockroaches	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 survive	nsubj
3	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 survive	aux
4	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 survive	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 truth	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 truth	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 truth	det
16	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 survive	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 survive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive in a quote	would	cockroaches	the end of the world and mate					tree rules
2	is a	present		the truth					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

They are tough, but cold, heat and hunger still kill them, and other insects beat them at radiation

The tree, 18 words

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	3 tough	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tough	cop
3	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 kill	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heat	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cold	punct
8	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kill	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hunger	cc
10	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heat	conj
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 kill	advmod
12	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tough	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 beat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 beat	cc
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 insects	amod
17	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 beat	nsubj
18	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tough	parataxis
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 beat	obj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 radiation	case
21	radiation	radiation	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They				tough property	tree rules
2	kill	present	cold heat and hunger	them = they		still		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	beat	present	other insects	heat	radiation			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 2

True, they cannot be killed by anything at all, not fire, not ice and not hunger, nothing ever

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 killed	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj:pass
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 killed	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 killed	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 anything	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fire	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fire	advmod
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ice	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 ice	advmod
17	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hunger	cc
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 hunger	advmod
20	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 anything	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nothing	punct
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 anything	conj
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not kill	can · passive		they				by anything	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

True, they are made of metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 metal	case
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		they				of metal	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

False, they die from light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 die	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 die	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 die	nsubj
4	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present	they			light			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from light=Causer

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