Test 9 · ★★ · Snakes, spiders and scorpions

Which family is least likely to meet a wild snake at home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: wild snake, home

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 meet	mark
7	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 snake	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meet	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which family					least, likely property	tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	which family not said here	a wild snake		home			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-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

A family in Arizona

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Arizona	case
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

Option 2

A family in Queensland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Queensland	case
4	Queensland	Queensland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

Option 3

A family in Texas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A family in Ireland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ireland	case
4	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod

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

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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