Test 2 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…
In Batman films a huge swarm of bats bursts out of a cave. Where do real millions of bats do that every evening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huge swarm, real millions · What happens: burst out, do · To what, where: cave, Batman films, that
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In Batman films a huge swarm of bats bursts out of a cave.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 films | case |
| 2 | Batman | Batman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 films | compound |
| 3 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bursts | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 swarm | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swarm | amod |
| 6 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bursts | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bats | case |
| 8 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swarm | nmod |
| 9 | bursts | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bursts | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bursts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | present | a huge swarm of bats | a cave | Batman films | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cave=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: Where do real millions of bats do that every evening?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 do | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 millions | amod |
| 4 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bats | case |
| 6 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 millions | nmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | real millions of bats not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | real millions of bats | that | evening | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
In Antarctica, under the ice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Antarctica | case |
| 2 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Antarctica | punct |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ice | det |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Antarctica | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Under the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On the Moon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 Moon | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Moon | det |
| 3 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Bracken Cave in Texas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bracken | Bracken | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cave | compound |
| 2 | Cave | Cave | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Texas | case |
| 4 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cave | nmod |
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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