Test 3 · Life cycles
A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case. What stage is it in?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: caterpillar, stage · What happens: stop, eat, hang, be · To what, where: hard case
This is test 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» 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 caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 caterpillar | det |
| 2 | caterpillar | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stops | nsubj |
| 3 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stops | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hangs | cc |
| 6 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stops | conj |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 hangs | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 case | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 case | det |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 case | amod |
| 11 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hangs | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stops | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | a caterpillar | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | a caterpillar not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hang | present | a caterpillar not said here | a hard case | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in case=Location |
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 stage is it in?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 1 What | compound:prt |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | stage | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Embryo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Embryo | embryo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Pupa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pupa | pupa | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Larva
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Larva | larva | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Adult
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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/world/25-life-cycles/t3/