Test 6 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

Where are the holes a hissing cockroach breathes through?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hissing cockroach · What happens: be, hiss, breathe through · To what, where: holes

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 holes	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holes	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 holes	det
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 breathes	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cockroach	det
6	hissing	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cockroach	amod
7	cockroach	cockroach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathes	nsubj
8	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	8 breathes	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 breathes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the holes	tree rules
2	hiss	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	breathe through	present	a hissing cockroach		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Inside its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 mouth	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Under its wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 wings	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wings	nmod:poss
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

At the very tip of each of its long feelers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 tip	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tip	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 tip	advmod
4	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 tip	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 feelers	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feelers	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feelers	amod
10	feelers	feeler	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Along its sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Along	along	ADP	_	3 sides	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sides	nmod:poss
3	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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