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Test 4 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?

Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening. Which is true about real bats?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Batman · What happens: wear, look, be · To what, where: dark bat costume

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batman	batman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	nsubj
2	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 costume	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 costume	amod
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costume	compound
6	costume	costume	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wears	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wears	advcl
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	Batman	a dark bat costume					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent costume=Theme
2	look	to-infinitive	Batman not said here					frightening property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Which is true about real bats?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 bats	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bats	amod
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about real bats; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most are shy and useful, eating pests and spreading seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 shy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shy	cop
3	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 useful	cc
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shy	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eating	punct
7	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shy	advcl
8	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eating	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seeds	cc
10	spreading	spreading	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seeds	compound
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pests	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Most					shy property	tree rules
2	be		Most not said here						tree rules
3	eat	gerund	Most not said here	pests and spreading seeds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient

Option 2

Bats are a kind of bird, just one with fur instead of feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bird	case
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 kind	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 fur	case
11	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	14 feathers	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bats	a kind				of bird; instead feathers	tree rules

Option 3

Bats only come out at Halloween

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 Halloween	case
6	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Bats			Halloween		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

All bats are dangerous to people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bats	det
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all bats					to people; dangerous property	tree rules

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