Test 7 · ★ · The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scor…

Why does a stick insect sway even when there is no wind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wind · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sway	det
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insect	compound
5	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sway	compound
6	sway	sway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 is	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 is	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 is	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no wind			there			vn exist-47.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

To look like a twig moving in a breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 twig	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 twig	det
5	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
6	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 twig	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 breeze	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						like a twig	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	move	gerund	a twig not said here			a breeze			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory

Option 2

To shake off the dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 shake	mark
2	shake	shake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 shake	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dust	det
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake off	to-infinitive		the dust					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dust=Patient

Option 3

To keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive						warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Because it is dizzy from hanging upside down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 dizzy	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dizzy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dizzy	cop
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 hanging	mark
6	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dizzy	advcl
7	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hanging	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 hanging	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dizzy property	tree rules
2	hang down	gerund		upside				down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient

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