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Test 7 · Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fl…

Three friends put their heads together over one phone. Why might lice spread?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Three friends, lice · What happens: put, spread · To what, where: heads, one phone

This is test 7 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

Sentence 1: Three friends put their heads together over one phone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 friends	nummod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 phone	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 phone	nummod
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Three friends	friends's heads		one phone		together property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme over phone=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: Why might lice spread?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spread	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	might	lice						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Lice jump across from the phone screen onto anyone holding it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jump	nsubj
2	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADV	_	2 jump	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 screen	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 screen	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 screen	compound
7	screen	screen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 jump	obl
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 anyone	case
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 jump	obl
10	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 anyone	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	present	Lice			the phone screen		onto anyone; across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from screen=Trajectory
2	hold	gerund		screen					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Lice fly between the screens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 screens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 screens	det
5	screens	screen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Lice			the screens			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between screen=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lice crawl from hair to hair when heads touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crawl	nsubj
2	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 hair	case
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawl	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 hair	case
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crawl	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 touch	mark
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 touch	nsubj
9	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crawl	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	present	Lice			hair		to hair	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hair=Destination
2	touch	present	heads						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Phones make lice grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Phones	lice					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	lice not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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