Test 3 · Insects and spiders

Why could an insect not grow as big as a dog today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: insect · What happens: not grow

This is test 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grow	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grow	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 insect	det
4	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 grow	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grow	xcomp
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 big	obl
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dog	nmod:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	could	a insect					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its breathing tubes could not bring enough air to a body so big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tubes	nmod:poss
2	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tubes	compound
3	tubes	tube	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bring	advmod
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 body	det
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 big	advmod
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bring	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bring	could	Its breathing tubes	enough air		a body			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Theme to body=Destination

Option 2

Its eyes would not work in a big body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 body	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 body	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 body	amod
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	would	Its eyes					in a big body	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in body=Theme

Option 3

It would be too heavy to fly to flowers

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	5 heavy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heavy	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 flowers	case
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					heavy property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive						to flowers result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to flower=Result

Option 4

Its antennae would be too long to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 antennae	nmod:poss
2	antennae	antennae	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 long	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 long	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 long	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Its antennae					long property	tree rules
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	Its antennae not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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