Test 18 · ★★ · Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours

my cousin swears there's like a million funnel-webs in every shoe in Sydney, true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin · What happens: swear, be · To what, where: shoe

This is test 18 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	nsubj
3	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 's	expl
5	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swears	ccomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	11 webs	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 million	det
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 webs	nummod
9	funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 webs	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 funnel	punct
11	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swears	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 shoe	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 shoe	det
14	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swears	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 Sydney	case
16	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 shoe	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 shoe	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 swears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	my cousin			every shoe in Sydney		like million funnel webs	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	be	present	my cousin not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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

No, funnel-webs live only in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct
3	funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 webs	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 funnel	punct
5	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 zoos	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 zoos	case
9	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, every shoe in Sydney has spiders in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 shoe	det
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Sydney	case
6	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shoe	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spiders	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every shoe in Sydney	spiders		it			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spider=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, so nobody in Sydney wears shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 wears	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wears	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 wears	advmod
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 wears	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Sydney	case
6	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 nobody	nmod
7	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wears	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	nobody	shoes					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Probably exaggerated, but shaking out shoes is still a good habit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	2 exaggerated	advmod
2	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 habit	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 habit	cc
5	shaking	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 habit	csubj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 shaking	compound:prt
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shaking	obj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 habit	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	12 habit	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 habit	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 habit	amod
12	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exaggerated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	exaggerate	participle				probably property	tree rules
2	shake out	gerund		shoes			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
3	is a	present	shaking	a good habit	still		tree rules

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