Test 5 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

mate says that big hairy spider will kill you if it bites. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, big hairy spider, spider · What happens: say, kill, bite · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 97 «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 kill	mark
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spider	amod
5	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spider	amod
6	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	aux
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 kill	obj
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 bites	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bites	nsubj
12	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 kill	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	kill	future	big hairy spider	you	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	bite a condition, not said to happen	present	spider		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Yes, but only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 night	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 night	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 night	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, tarantulas have no fangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	tarantulas	tarantula	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fangs	det
6	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

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

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

No, most tarantula bites are like a bee sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 sting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 bites	amod
4	tarantula	tarantula	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bites	compound
5	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sting	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sting	cop
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 sting	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sting	det
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sting	compound
10	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	most tarantula bites					like a bee sting	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, every tarantula bite is deadly to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 deadly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bite	det
4	tarantula	tarantula	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	compound
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deadly	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deadly	cop
7	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 deadly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every tarantula bite					to people; deadly property	tree rules

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