Test 5 · ★★ · Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostr…

«blind as a bat, innit» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: innit, be · To what, where: best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 295 «Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostriches and goldfish» 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	_	2 blind	punct
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answer	csubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 bat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blind	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 blind	parataxis
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 blind	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 answer	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answer	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 answer	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 answer	amod
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit in a quote	infinitive							tree rules
2	be speech: assert	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

Right, bats bump into walls and trees all day and all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 bump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bump	nsubj
4	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 walls	case
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bump	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trees	cc
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walls	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bump	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 night	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	present	bats			walls and trees	day		vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wall=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Wrong saying: all bats can see, and many also use echoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saying	amod
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bats	det
5	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saying	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 use	cc
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 use	nsubj
11	also	also	ADV	_	12 use	advmod
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 see	conj
13	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	all bats						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	use	present	many	echoes					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient

Option 3

Right, bats are born with no eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 born	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 born	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 born	aux:pass
5	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 eyes	det
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 born	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		bats				with no eyes	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Wrong, bats see only in daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bats	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 daylight	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 daylight	case
7	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Wrong bats	daylight					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus

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