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Test 4 · ★★ · Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth

Farmers play a recording of buzzing bees near a field. What will the elephants probably do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Farmers, recording, elephants · What happens: play, buzz, do · To what, where: recording, bees, field

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 236 «Animal minds: elephants' memory, feelings and the mouse myth» 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: Farmers play a recording of buzzing bees near a field.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 recording	det
4	recording	recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 buzzing	mark
6	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 recording	acl
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buzzing	obj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buzzing	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 play	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Farmers	a recording					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recording=Theme
2	buzz	gerund	a recording not said here	bees		a field			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bee=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: What will the elephants probably do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elephants	det
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the elephants					probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Fall asleep to the humming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Fall	xcomp
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 humming	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 humming	det
5	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	imperative	you not said here					to the humming; asleep property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to humming=Theme

Option 2

Start trumpeting a song back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 song	det
4	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trumpeting	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 trumpeting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	trumpet back	gerund	you not said here	a song					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent song=Theme

Option 3

Come closer to eat the honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Come	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 eat	mark
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Come	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 honey	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	you not said here	the honey					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Walk away from the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sound	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk away	imperative	you not said here			the sound		away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sound=Source

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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