Test 6 · Insects and spiders

Why is it hard to swat a fly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, swat · To what, where: fly

This is test 6 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	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 swat	mark
6	swat	swat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fly	det
8	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swat	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	swat	to-infinitive		a fly					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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 · ← Mova's choice

It can hear your heartbeat as your hand comes near

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	3 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heartbeat	nmod:poss
5	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	advcl
10	near	near	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	It	your heartbeat					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heartbeat=Stimulus
2	come	present	your hand					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its compound eyes see movement all around it

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 eyes	nmod:poss
2	compound	compound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eyes	compound
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Its compound eyes	movement		movement		all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer movement=Stimulus

Option 3

It feels the heat of your hand

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 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 heat	det
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hand	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It	the heat of your hand					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	heat		your hand						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

It can smell your hand from far away

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	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smell	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 far	case
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 smell	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	can	It	your hand				far property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus

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