Test 1 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«got 6 bites last night, them male mozzies are evil» What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: male mozzies · What happens: get, be · To what, where: 6 bites · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 399 «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 bites	nummod
4	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 got	obj
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 night	amod
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
9	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mozzies	amod
10	mozzies	mozzy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 evil	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 evil	cop
12	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 wrong	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 wrong	cop
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		6 bites	night		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	male mozzies			evil property	tree rules
3	is	present				wrong 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

Mosquitoes do not bite at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present · do-support	Mosquitoes				night		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only female mosquitoes bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mosquitoes	advmod
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mosquitoes	amod
3	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	female mosquitoes						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Mosquitoes never bite people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	present	Mosquitoes	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Males bite more than females

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 bite	obj
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 females	case
5	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Males	more					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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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