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Test 10 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?

A tiger moth makes clicks when a bat comes near. What might the clicks do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: tiger moth, bat, clicks · What happens: make, come, do · To what, where: clicks

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 153 «Myth check: are bats blind?» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: A tiger moth makes clicks when a bat comes near.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moth	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moth	compound
3	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 comes	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bat	det
8	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 makes	advcl
10	near	near	ADV	_	9 comes	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a tiger moth	clicks					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset click=Product
2	come	present	a bat					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: What might the clicks do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clicks	det
4	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might	the clicks						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Call other bats to dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bats	amod
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Call	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dinner	mark
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Call	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	imperative	you not said here	other bats					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bat=Recipient

Option 2

Make the moth fly faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moth	det
3	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	parataxis
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	fly	present	the moth					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Confuse the bat's echolocation or warn that the moth tastes bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Confuse	confuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bat	det
3	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 echolocation	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 bat	case
5	echolocation	echolocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Confuse	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 warn	cc
7	warn	warn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Confuse	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 tastes	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moth	det
10	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tastes	nsubj
11	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warn	ccomp
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tastes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confuse	imperative	you not said here	the bat's echolocation					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echolocation=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	infinitive	you not said here						vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	taste	present	the moth					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Help the moth see in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moth	det
3	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Help	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	present	the moth			the dark			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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