Test 4 · Insects and spiders
A small animal has two body parts, no antennae and eight legs, and it hunts on the ground without a web. What is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small animal, animal · What happens: have, hunt, be · To what, where: two body parts, ground
This is test 4 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
Sentence 1: A small animal has two body parts, no antennae and eight legs, and it hunts on the ground without a web.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 parts | nummod |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parts | compound |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 antennae | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 antennae | det |
| 10 | antennae | antennae | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parts | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 legs | cc |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 legs | nummod |
| 13 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 parts | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hunts | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hunts | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hunts | nsubj |
| 17 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunts | obl |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 web | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 web | det |
| 23 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunts | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a small animal | two body parts and no antennae and eight legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | animal | the ground | without a web | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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 is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
An ant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ant | det |
| 2 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A spider
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 spider | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A fly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fly | det |
| 2 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A beetle
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 | 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.
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