Test 7 · Groups of animals and how to tell them apart
A beetle and a spider are both small. What is one difference?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetle · What happens: be · To what, where: one difference
This is test 7 of lesson 24 «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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 beetle and a spider are both small.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 small | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 spider | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spider | det |
| 5 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beetle | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 small | cop |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 small | advmod |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 small | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a beetle and a spider | both, small 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.
Sentence 2: What is one difference?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 difference | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 difference | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 difference | nummod |
| 4 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 difference | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | one difference | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The spider has three body parts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 parts | nummod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | compound |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the spider | three body parts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient |
Option 2
The spider has wings, the beetle not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beetle | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beetle | det |
| 7 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wings | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 has | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present | the spider | wings and the beetle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The beetle has six legs, the spider eight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 legs | nummod |
| 5 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spider | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spider | det |
| 8 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 legs | conj |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 spider | flat |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the beetle | six legs and the spider | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
Option 4
The beetle has a backbone, the spider not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beetle | det |
| 2 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 backbone | det |
| 5 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spider | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 spider | det |
| 8 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 backbone | appos |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 spider | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the beetle | a backbone | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backbone=Patient |
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