Test 3 · Hiking and the outdoors

Which is true about ticks?

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

This is test 3 of lesson 47 «Hiking and the outdoors» 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	about	about	ADP	_	5 ticks	case
5	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about ticks; 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 · ✓ the right answer

They are found in long grass and some carry disease

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 found	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grass	amod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carry	cc
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 carry	nsubj
9	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
10	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		They		long grass			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	carry	present	some	disease					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme

Option 2

They live only in hot deserts

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 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 deserts	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 deserts	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 deserts	amod
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They			hot deserts			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location

Option 3

They only bite pets, never people

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	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 people	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 people	advmod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bite	conj

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

Option 4

They are so big that you always feel them when they bite

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	4 big	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 feel	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 feel	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 feel	advmod
8	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 feel	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 bite	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bite	nsubj
12	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 feel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	They		big property	tree rules
2	feel	present	you	them = they	always property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	bite	present	they			vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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