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title: A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind.… — Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk · tree and pragmatics
description: A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind. What might be helping it? Test 8 of lesson 244 «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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 
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# Test 8 · Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk

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A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind. What might be helping it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tiny spider · **What happens:** rise, help · **To what, where:** air, spider

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This is test 8 of lesson 244 «Animal builders: spiders' webs and silk» 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/244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:1
# text = A tiny spider rises into the air on a still autumn day with no wind.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | a tiny spider |  |  | the air | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into air=Initial\_Location |

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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 might be helping it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:2
# text = What might be helping it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | might · progressive |  | spider |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Earth's electric field pulling on its silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:o1:1
# text = The Earth's electric field pulling on its silk
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	pulling	pull	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | gerund | the Earth's electric field *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on field's silk | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on silk=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Warm water underneath it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:o2:1
# text = Warm water underneath it
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A bird carrying it in its beak for miles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:o3:1
# text = A bird carrying it in its beak for miles
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | gerund | a bird *not said here* | bird |  | bird's beak |  | for miles | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in beak=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Its tiny hidden wings flapping very fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:244-animal-builders-spiders-webs-and-silk:t8:o4:1
# text = Its tiny hidden wings flapping very fast
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flap** | gerund | Its tiny hidden wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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