Test 11 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«sat on a mound in the woods and now my legs are on fire» What has probably happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: legs · What happens: sit, be, happen · To what, where: mound, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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 sat	punct
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 mound	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mound	det
5	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sat	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fire	cc
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fire	advmod
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fire	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 fire	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 fire	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 happened	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
19	probably	probably	ADV	_	20 happened	advmod
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 sat	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past		a mound		in the woods	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	my legs	fire	now		tree rules
3	happen	present · perfect				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A snake was hiding in the mound and bit you lots of times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hiding	aux
4	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mound	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mound	det
7	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiding	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bit	cc
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mound	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hiding	nsubj
11	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hiding	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 times	case
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	a snake	lots of times		the mound and bit			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Patient in mound=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Red wood ants bit and sprayed acid to defend their nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ants	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ants	compound
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bit	compound
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprayed	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sprayed	cc
6	sprayed	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprayed	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 defend	mark
9	defend	defend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sprayed	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 defend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	past		ants bit					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent acid=Theme
2	defend	to-infinitive		their nest					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Beneficiary

Option 3

Hornets stung you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stung	nsubj
2	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 stung	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sting	past	Hornets	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

Option 4

The mound was hot from the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mound	det
2	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mound			the Sun		hot property	tree rules

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