Test 7 · Insects and spiders
A tick sucks blood from a dog. Which group does it belong to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: tick, group · What happens: suck, belong · To what, where: blood
This is test 7 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 tick sucks blood from a dog.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tick | det |
| 2 | tick | tick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sucks | nsubj |
| 3 | sucks | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sucks | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 dog | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sucks | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sucks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | present | a tick | blood | from a dog | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from dog=Source |
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: Which group does it belong to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 belong | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 belong | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present · do-support | which group | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Arachnids, like spiders
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arachnids | arachnid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spiders | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 spiders | case |
| 4 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arachnids | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Worms, like leeches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leeches | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 leeches | case |
| 4 | leeches | leech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Worms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Crustaceans, like crabs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crustaceans | crustacean | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crabs | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 crabs | case |
| 4 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Crustaceans | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Insects, like fleas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fleas | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 fleas | case |
| 4 | fleas | flea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Insects | conj |
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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