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Test 9 · ★ · Small creatures and creepy-crawlies

A snail stuck to a dry wall all summer suddenly moves after rain. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snail · What happens: stick, move, happen · To what, where: snail

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 9 «Small creatures and creepy-crawlies» 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: A snail stuck to a dry wall all summer suddenly moves after rain.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moves	nsubj
3	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 snail	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 wall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wall	det
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wall	amod
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 summer	det
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuck	obl:unmarked
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 moves	advmod
11	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 rain	case
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moves	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 moves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	participle		a snail not said here			summer	to a dry wall	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to wall=Co-Patient
2	move	present	a snail				after rain	suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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.

Sentence 2: What happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It was glued there by a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glued	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glued	aux:pass
3	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 glued	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	past · passive	a bird	It		there			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was dormant, waiting for damp weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dormant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dormant	cop
3	dormant	dormant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dormant	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 weather	case
7	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weather	amod
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					dormant property	tree rules
2	wait	gerund						for damp weather	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It had been sleeping for three years exactly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeping	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 sleeping	aux
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleeping	obl
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect · progressive	It				year	exactly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was dead and came back to life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 came	cc
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dead	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 life	case
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					dead property	tree rules
2	come back	past				life			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

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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