Test 8 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?

«lol why's a bat hanging upside down, gonna get a headache» Why does it hang like that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat, headache · What happens: be, hang down, get, hang · To what, where: bat, upside, headache · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 bat	punct
2	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 bat	discourse
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bat	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bat	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bat	acl
8	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 hanging	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
11	gonna	gonna	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hanging	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 headache	det
14	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 get	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 hang	advmod
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hang	aux
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hang	nsubj
19	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	parataxis
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 hang	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a bat		tree rules
2	hang down in a quote	gerund	a bat not said here	upside	down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upside=Patient
3	get in a quote	infinitive	a bat not said here	a headache		tree rules
4	hang	present · do-support	headache		like that	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

It is too lazy to stand up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stand	mark
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stand	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					lazy property	tree rules
2	stand up	to-infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It fell and got stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 got	cc
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	conj
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	It						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past						stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It can drop straight into flight, and its locked claws make hanging effortless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 flight	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 flight	case
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
10	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 claws	amod
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	parataxis
13	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 make	xcomp
14	effortless	effortless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hanging	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	drop	can	It	flight		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into flight=Trajectory
2	lock	participle				vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	flight's locked claws			tree rules
4	hang	gerund	flight's locked claws not said here		effortless property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is trying to see the world differently, upside down, just for fun

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 trying	aux
3	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	differently	differently	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 upside	punct
10	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trying	obl
11	down	down	ADV	_	3 trying	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fun	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 fun	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 fun	case
15	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trying	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	present · progressive	It	upside				down property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive		the world				differently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

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