Test 2 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…

«a blind guy on the news rides a BIKE?? how» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blind guy, best answer · What happens: ride, be · To what, where: BIKE · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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	_	8 rides	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guy	det
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guy	amod
4	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rides	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 news	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 news	det
7	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guy	nmod
8	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 BIKE	det
10	BIKE	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rides	obj
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	8 rides	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 »	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 rides	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 rides	parataxis
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 rides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride in a quote	present	a blind guy on the news	a BIKE					tree rules
2	is a	present	the best answer						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 · ✓ the right answer

He clicks his tongue and reads the echoes, like a bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 clicks	nsubj
2	clicks	click	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tongue	nmod:poss
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clicks	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 reads	cc
6	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 clicks	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 echoes	det
8	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reads	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bat	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bat	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bat	det
12	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 echoes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	click	present	He	his tongue					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tongue=Theme
2	read	present	He not said here	the echoes and a bat					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Topic

Option 2

He can secretly see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 3

He uses a map in his head only, and remembers every bump in the road

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 head	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 remembers	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 remembers	cc
11	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 bump	det
13	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 road	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 remembers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	He	a map		his head			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Patient
2	remember	present	He not said here	every bump		the road			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bump=Theme

Option 4

The bike drives itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bike	det
2	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	nsubj
3	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 drives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	the bike	bike					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory

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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