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title: In a cartoon a spider lifts a truck. What is real? — Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbi… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a spider lifts a truck. What is real? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 148 «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites

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In a cartoon a spider lifts a truck. What is real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spider · **What happens:** lift, be · **To what, where:** truck, cartoon

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 148 «Spider-Man: real spider senses, climbing and bites» 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/148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a spider lifts a truck.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:1
# text = In a cartoon a spider lifts a truck.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lifts	lift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | present | a spider | a truck |  | a cartoon |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent truck=Theme in cartoon=Destination |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:2
# text = What is real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Spiders are weaker than any other animal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:o1:1
# text = Spiders are weaker than any other animal
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Spiders |  |  |  |  | than any other animal; weak *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Spiders get stronger and stronger the bigger they grow, with no limit at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:o2:1
# text = Spiders get stronger and stronger the bigger they grow, with no limit at all
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Spiders |  |  |  |  | big, strong *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Spiders *= spider* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Spiders are strong for their size, but a giant spider would struggle with its own weight

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:o3:1
# text = Spiders are strong for their size, but a giant spider would struggle with its own weight
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Spiders |  |  |  |  | for Spiders's size; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **struggle** | would | a giant spider |  |  |  |  | with size's own weight | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with weight=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spiders really can lift trucks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:148-spider-man-real-spider-senses-climbing-and-bites:t3:o4:1
# text = Spiders really can lift trucks
1	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | can | Spiders | trucks |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truck=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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