Test 12 · Insects and spiders

Mia says spiders are insects cos they're creepy crawlies. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, spiders · What happens: say, be · To what, where: insects · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 insects	cop
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	obj
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	10 crawlies	case
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crawlies	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 crawlies	cop
9	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 crawlies	amod
10	crawlies	crawly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 insects	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 insects	punct
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia		true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	spiders	insects		tree rules
3	is	present	spiders = spider		cos creepy crawlies	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.

The options

Option 1

No, spiders are a kind of small crab that has moved onto dry land

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 crab	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crab	amod
9	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 moved	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 moved	aux
12	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 crab	acl:relcl
13	onto	onto	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	spiders	a kind				of small crab	tree rules
2	move	present · perfect	small crab			dry land			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto land=Trajectory

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

No, spiders are arachnids, like scorpions, ticks and mites

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 arachnids	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arachnids	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 arachnids	cop
5	arachnids	arachnid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scorpions	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 scorpions	case
8	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arachnids	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ticks	punct
10	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scorpions	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mites	cc
12	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scorpions	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	spiders	arachnids				like scorpions and ticks and mites	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but only the spiders that build webs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 spiders	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 spiders	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 spiders	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 spiders	det
6	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 build	nsubj
8	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 spiders	acl:relcl
9	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 build	obj

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

Option 4

Yes, every small crawling animal is an insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 insect	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animal	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
5	crawling	crawling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	compound
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 insect	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 insect	cop
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 insect	det
9	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every small crawling animal	a insect					tree rules

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