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description: What would happen to a garden spider's web if no flies came for a whole week? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 220 «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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 wr
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# Test 9 · ★ · Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones

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What would happen to a garden spider's web if no flies came for a whole week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** flies · **What happens:** happen, come

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 220 «Spiders and other minibeasts under logs and stones» 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/220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones:t9:1
# text = What would happen to a garden spider's web if no flies came for a whole week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a garden spider's web | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no flies |  |  |  | week |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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The spider would turn into a fly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones:t9:o1:1
# text = The spider would turn into a fly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the spider |  |  |  |  | into a fly *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fly=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The web would catch flies by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones:t9:o2:1
# text = The web would catch flies by itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | would | the web | flies |  |  |  | by web | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme |

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

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The spider would go hungry and might eat and rebuild the web

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones:t9:o3:1
# text = The spider would go hungry and might eat and rebuild the web
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rebuild	rebuild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the spider |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | might | the spider *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rebuild** | infinitive | the spider *not said here* | the web |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The web would keep on growing bigger and stronger all on its own

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:220-spiders-and-other-minibeasts-under-logs-and-stones:t9:o4:1
# text = The web would keep on growing bigger and stronger all on its own
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | the web |  |  |  |  | own *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | the web *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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