Test 1 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…

«blind as a bat lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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	_	2 blind	punct
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 bat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blind	obl
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 blind	discourse
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 blind	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 right	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 right	cop
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blind	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 blind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bats see only colours, not shapes, so they bump into every wall and tree

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 colours	advmod
4	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shapes	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 shapes	advmod
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 colours	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bump	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 bump	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bump	nsubj
11	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 wall	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bump	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 tree	cc
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Bats	colours and shapes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus
2	bump	present	Bats = bat			every wall and tree			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wall=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bats are not blind: many see well and also use echoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	parataxis
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 see	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 use	cc
10	also	also	ADV	_	11 use	advmod
11	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
12	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Bats		blind property	tree rules
2	see	present	many		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	use	present	many not said here	echoes		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient

Option 3

Right, bats have no eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 eyes	det
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	bats	no eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 4

Right, bats see only at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 noon	case
7	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	bats				noon		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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