Test 10 · Insects and spiders

how come the spider in the shed has no web, is it broken

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shed · What happens: come, have, break · To what, where: spider, web, shed

This is test 10 of lesson 72 «Insects and spiders» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spider	det
4	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 has	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shed	det
7	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 web	det
10	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 broken	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 broken	aux:pass
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 broken	nsubj:pass
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	the spider	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spider=Theme
2	have	present	the shed	no web	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient
3	break	present · passive		shed	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

The web is there but always invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 web	det
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 invisible	cc
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 invisible	advmod
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 is	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the web			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not all spiders build webs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 build	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spiders	det
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not build	present	all spiders	webs					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Spiders only build webs in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 build	advmod
3	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	Spiders	webs			summer		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset web=Product

Option 4

It ate its own web by mistake

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	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 web	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 web	amod
5	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 mistake	case
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	It	its own web				by mistake	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Patient

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