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Test 12 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

A scientist waves a still red cape and a moving blue cape at a bull. Which will the bull most likely charge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist, bull · What happens: wave, move, charge · To what, where: red cape

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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 scientist waves a still red cape and a moving blue cape at a bull.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waves	nsubj
3	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cape	det
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 red	advmod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cape	amod
7	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waves	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cape	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cape	det
10	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 cape	amod
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cape	amod
12	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cape	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bull	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bull	det
15	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cape	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	a scientist	a red cape and a moving blue cape at a bull					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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: Which will the bull most likely charge?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 charge	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 charge	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bull	det
4	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 charge	nsubj
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 likely	advmod
6	likely	likely	ADV	_	7 charge	advmod
7	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 charge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	future	the bull					likely property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location which=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both at the same moment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 moment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moment	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moment	amod
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Both	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Neither, bulls never charge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 charge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charge	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 charge	advmod
5	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not charge	present	bulls						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The still bright red cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cape	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 bright	advmod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cape	amod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cape	amod
5	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The moving blue cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cape	det
2	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cape	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cape	amod
4	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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