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# Test 10 · Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs

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«spider dropped off the ceiling right onto my desk, how'd it get back up» How?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** spider · **What happens:** drop off, get back · **To what, where:** ceiling, desk

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This is test 10 of lesson 147 «Spider-Man: real spider silk and webs» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs:t10:1
# text = «spider dropped off the ceiling right onto my desk, how'd it get back up» How?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	desk	desk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
19	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop off** *in a quote* | participle | spider | the ceiling |  | my desk |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ceiling=Theme onto desk=Destination |
| 2 | **get back** *in a quote* | would | spider |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It flew back up to the ceiling with a pair of small hidden wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs:t10:o1:1
# text = It flew back up to the ceiling with a pair of small hidden wings
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | It |  |  |  |  | to the ceiling *result*; with a pair of small hidden wings | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ceiling=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It jumped all the way up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs:t10:o2:1
# text = It jumped all the way up
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump up** | past | It | all way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location way=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It climbed up its dragline, the safety thread it let out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs:t10:o3:1
# text = It climbed up its dragline, the safety thread it let out
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dragline	dragline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | It | its dragline |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location dragline=Theme |
| 2 | **let out** | past | dragline | the safety thread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It walked up the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:147-spider-man-real-spider-silk-and-webs:t10:o4:1
# text = It walked up the air
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk up** | past | It | the air |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location air=Theme |

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**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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