Test 9 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?

A boy in winter finds bats asleep in a cold cave and wants to wake one to look at it. What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, best answer · What happens: find, want, wake, look, be · To what, where: bats, cold cave, one

This is test 9 · ★★ 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 boy in winter finds bats asleep in a cold cave and wants to wake one to look at it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 winter	case
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 finds	obj
7	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bats	amod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cave	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cave	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cave	amod
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wants	cc
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 finds	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 wake	mark
15	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 wake	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wake	advcl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 look	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	present	a boy in winter	bats	a cold cave		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic
2	want	present	a boy in winter not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	wake not said to happen	to-infinitive	a boy in winter not said here	one			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	look	to-infinitive	a boy in winter not said here			at cave	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=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 is the best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Wake it gently with a torch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wake	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Wake	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 torch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 torch	det
6	torch	torch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	imperative	you not said here	it				with a torch; gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with torch=Instrument

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Leave it; waking it burns fat it needs to live until spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 burns	punct
4	waking	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 burns	csubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waking	obj
6	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	advcl
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burns	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 needs	nsubj
9	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burns	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 needs	xcomp
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 spring	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	wake	gerund		it		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	burn	present	waking	fat		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
4	need	present	fat			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	fat not said here		spring	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Wake it up, because then it will fly out and eat lots more insects for you

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wake	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Wake	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fly	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fly	mark
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fly	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fly	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wake	parataxis
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 fly	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	conj
13	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 insects	amod
15	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lots	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	imperative	you not said here	it			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fly out	future	it		then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	present		lots and more insects		for you	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient

Option 4

Wake it, bats like visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wake	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bats	punct
4	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wake	obl
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 visitors	case
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bats	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	imperative	you not said here	it				bats like visitors obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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