Test 7 · ★★ · Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog…

«every spider in Europe can kill ya» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spider, best correction · What happens: kill, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	7 kill	punct
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spider	det
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kill	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Europe	case
5	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 spider	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 kill	aux
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 What	parataxis
8	ya	ya	X	_	7 kill	flat
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 kill	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 What	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 correction	det
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 correction	amod
14	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 What	nsubj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill in a quote	can	every spider in Europe						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	the best correction						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

Almost all are harmless, and most cannot even bite through our skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 harmless	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 harmless	cop
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bite	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bite	cc
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 bite	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 bite	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bite	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 bite	advmod
11	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 harmless	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod:poss
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all					harmless property	tree rules
2	not bite	can	most			our skin			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through skin=Location

Option 2

Spiders have no fangs at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fangs	det
4	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Spiders	no fangs		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fang=Patient

Option 3

True, all spiders are deadly, even the little ones in the bath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deadly	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 spiders	det
4	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deadly	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deadly	cop
6	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 True	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ones	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 ones	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 bath	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bath	det
14	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all spiders					deadly property	tree rules

Option 4

True, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 True	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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