Test 3 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 25 «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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

Snakes cannot bite if they are not rattling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 rattling	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 rattling	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rattling	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 rattling	advmod
9	rattling	rattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bite	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bite	can	Snakes						vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	not rattle a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	Snakes = snake						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Most snakes would rather escape than bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 snakes	amod
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 escape	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 escape	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 escape	advmod
5	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 bite	case
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escape	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	would	Most snakes					than bite	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Snakes chase people to bite them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	nsubj
2	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chase	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bite	mark
5	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 chase	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present	Snakes	people					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
2	bite	to-infinitive	Snakes not said here	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

All snakes are deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deadly	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deadly	cop
4	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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