Test 7 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes

Why do some places with mosquitoes take bites more seriously than others?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: places · What happens: do, take · To what, where: bites

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 take	advcl
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 places	det
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 mosquitoes	case
6	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 places	nmod
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 seriously	advmod
10	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	7 take	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 others	case
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seriously	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	some places with mosquitoes not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	some places with mosquitoes	bites				seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=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

In some places mosquitoes carry diseases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 places	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 places	det
3	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obl
4	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	mosquitoes	diseases		some places			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent disease=Value in place=Location

Option 2

The bites there are far more itchy than anywhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bites	det
2	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 itchy	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 are	expl
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 itchy	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 itchy	advmod
7	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 anywhere	case
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 itchy	obl
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 anywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the bites					itchy property	tree rules

Option 3

Mosquitoes there are much bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 are	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 are	expl
3	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 are	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Mosquitoes			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They bite only children there

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	2 bite	nsubj
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 children	advmod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bite	obj
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 bite	advmod

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

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