Test 3 · Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails,…

In a cartoon Bugs Bunny waves a red cape and the bull goes mad at the colour. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bugs, bull · What happens: wave, go, be · To what, where: red cape

This is test 3 of lesson 249 «Defences: tricks and myths: playing dead, dropping tails, ink, and do ostriches bury their heads?» 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 a cartoon Bugs Bunny waves a red cape and the bull goes mad at the colour.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	obl
4	Bugs	Bugs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waves	nsubj
5	Bunny	Bunny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Bugs	flat
6	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cape	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cape	amod
9	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 goes	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bull	det
12	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waves	conj
14	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goes	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 colour	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 colour	det
17	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mad	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 waves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	Bugs	a red cape				in a cartoon	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cape=Patient in cartoon=Theme
2	go	present	the bull					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bull charges the moving cape, it cannot tell red from green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charges	nsubj
3	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cape	det
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cape	amod
6	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charges	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tell	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 charges	conj
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 green	case
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	charge	present	the bull	the moving cape		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cape=Theme
2	move	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	can	cape	red	green	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient

Option 2

Red is the only colour that bulls can see, so it makes them angry

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 colour	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 colour	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colour	amod
5	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 see	obj
7	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 colour	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 makes	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colour	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 makes	obj
15	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Red	the only colour		tree rules
2	see	can	bulls	the only colour		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	make	present	colour	bulls = bull	angry property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product

Option 3

The bull is chasing the smell of the cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chasing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 chasing	aux
4	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smell	det
6	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chasing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 cape	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cape	det
9	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	present · progressive	the bull	the smell of the cape					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme
2	smell		the cape						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Bulls never charge anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 charge	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 charge	advmod
3	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 charge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not charge	present	Bulls	anything					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location anything=Theme

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