Test 1 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

A boy in Leeds finds a big spider in his room and wants to squash it. What could he do instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: find, want, squash, do · To what, where: big spider, room, spider

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 69 «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Leeds finds a big spider in his room and wants to squash it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Leeds	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 spider	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spider	amod
8	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 room	nmod:poss
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 squash	mark
15	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 squash	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	present	a boy in Leeds	a big spider	boy's room	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Topic
2	want	present	a boy in Leeds not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	squash not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in Leeds not said here	spider		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What could he do instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	boy					instead property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Catch it under a glass with a card and put it outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Catch	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 glass	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 glass	det
5	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 card	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 card	det
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 put	cc
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 put	obj
12	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 put	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	it		a glass		with a card	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	put	infinitive	you not said here	card				outside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 2

Leave the window shut so it cannot get food and dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Leave	xcomp
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 get	advmod
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dies	cc
12	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the window	tree rules
2	shut	participle	the window not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	not get	can	window	food	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus
4	die	present	window not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Vacuum it up with the lid off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vacuum	vacuum	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Vacuum	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Vacuum	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 lid	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lid	det
6	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Vacuum	obl
7	off	off	ADP	_	1 Vacuum	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vacuum up	imperative	you not said here	it				with the lid	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Initial_Location

Option 4

Ask the spider to leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spider	det
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the spider					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent spider=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the spider not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/t1/