Test 8 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…

«that dolphin's staring at my mum, creepy» What might really be going on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dolphin · What happens: stare, go on

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	5 staring	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 dolphin	det
3	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 staring	aux
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 creepy	punct
10	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mum	amod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 staring	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 going	nsubj
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 going	aux
14	really	really	ADV	_	16 going	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 going	aux
16	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 staring	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 going	compound:prt
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 staring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare in a quote	present · progressive	that dolphin					at my mum	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at mum=Theme
2	go on	might · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP 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.

The options

Option 1

Dolphins cannot see people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Dolphins	people					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus

Option 2

Dolphins stare to hypnotise people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stare	nsubj
2	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hypnotise	mark
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stare	xcomp
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present	Dolphins						tree rules
2	hypnotise	to-infinitive	Dolphins not said here	people					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may be clicking at her, and echoes pass a little way into her body

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clicking	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clicking	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 clicking	aux
4	clicking	click	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clicking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pass	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pass	cc
9	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pass	nsubj
10	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clicking	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 body	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 body	nmod:poss
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	click	may · progressive	It					at her = she	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location
2	pass	present	echoes	a little way		her body			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent way=Theme into body=Destination

Option 4

It wants to bite her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bite	mark
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bite not said to happen	to-infinitive		her = she					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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