Test 6 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?
Each wing of a bat is a hand. Three bats spread their wings. How many thumbs are sticking out as hooks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wing, Three bats, many thumbs · What happens: be, spread, stick out · To what, where: hand, wings
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Each wing of a bat is a hand.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 wing | det |
| 2 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bat | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bat | det |
| 5 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wing | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hand | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | each wing of a bat | a hand | tree rules |
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: Three bats spread their wings.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bats | nummod |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | Three bats | their wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
Sentence 3: How many thumbs are sticking out as hooks?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thumbs | amod |
| 3 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sticking | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sticking | aux |
| 5 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sticking | compound:prt |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 hooks | case |
| 8 | hooks | hook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sticking | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sticking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick out | present · progressive | many thumbs | as hooks | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
12
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
30
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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