Test 1 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…

«my brother says spiders are insects cos they're creepy crawlies» What is the best correction?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, spiders, best correction · What happens: say, be · To what, where: insects · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 insects	cop
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 says	ccomp
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	12 crawlies	case
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crawlies	nsubj
10	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 crawlies	cop
11	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crawlies	amod
12	crawlies	crawly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 crawlies	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 crawlies	appos
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 correction	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 correction	amod
18	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	spiders	insects		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	spiders = spider		cos creepy crawlies	tree rules
4	is a	present	the best correction	insects		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

Spiders are tiny crabs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crabs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crabs	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crabs	amod
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	tiny crabs					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Spiders have eight legs, insects have six, so spiders are not insects

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	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 legs	nummod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 have	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 insects	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 insects	advmod
11	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 insects	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 insects	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 insects	advmod
14	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	Spiders	eight legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	have	present	insects	six	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent six=Patient
3	not is a	present	spiders	insects	tree rules

Option 3

Spiders are insects without wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insects	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 insects	cop
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 wings	case
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insects	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	insects				without wings	tree rules

Option 4

Right, all crawling things are insects, whatever number of legs they have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	7 insects	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 things	det
4	crawling	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 insects	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 insects	cop
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 number	punct
9	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	10 number	det
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 insects	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 legs	case
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 number	nmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 legs	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	crawl	gerund			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	all crawling things	insects	tree rules
3	have	present	things = thing	legs not said here	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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