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Test 9 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong

In a quiz cartoon, a spider says "I'm proud to be an insect!" What's the correction?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: spider, correction · What happens: say, be · To what, where: quiz cartoon, insect · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» of the myths 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: In a quiz cartoon, a spider says "I'm proud to be an insect!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cartoon	det
3	quiz	quiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cartoon	compound
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cartoon	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 proud	nsubj
11	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 proud	cop
12	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 says	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	16 insect	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 insect	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 insect	det
16	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proud	advcl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 proud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a spider			a quiz cartoon			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Manner
2	is in a quote	present	a spider = spider					proud property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	a spider = spider not said here	a insect					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.

Sentence 2: What's the correction?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 correction	det
4	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Spiders are baby crabs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crabs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 crabs	cop
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crabs	compound
4	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	baby crabs					tree rules

Option 2

Spiders are a kind of worm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 worm	case
6	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	a kind				of worm	tree rules

Option 3

Spiders are insects, so the cartoon got it right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insects	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 insects	cop
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 got	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cartoon	det
7	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 insects	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	8 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	insects					tree rules
2	get	past	the cartoon	it				right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Spiders are arachnids, with eight legs not six

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arachnids	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 arachnids	cop
3	arachnids	arachnid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 legs	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nummod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 arachnids	nmod
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 six	advmod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 legs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Spiders	arachnids				with eight legs six	tree rules

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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