Test 11 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes

mozzies always get me in the evening, why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mozzies · What happens: get · To what, where: me

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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	mozzies	mozzy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 get	advmod
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 get	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 evening	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 why	punct
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	mozzies	me			evening	always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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

Many mosquitoes bite most at dusk and dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mosquitoes	amod
2	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 bite	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dawn	cc
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dusk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Many mosquitoes				dusk		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They're asleep in the evening, so it must be something else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 evening	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 evening	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 something	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 something	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 something	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 something	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 something	cop
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 asleep	conj
13	else	else	ADV	_	12 something	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They				evening	asleep property	tree rules
2	is a	must	it	something				else property	tree rules

Option 3

Mosquitoes only bite in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Mosquitoes				winter		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They only bite at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bite	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bite	advmod
3	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	They				noon		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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