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Test 8 · ★★ · Animal myths put right: elephants and mice, lemmings, ostr…

A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull. Which will it most likely charge?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist · What happens: wave, flap, charge · To what, where: red cape

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A scientist waves a still red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waves	nsubj
3	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cape	det
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 red	advmod
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cape	amod
7	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waves	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 towel	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 towel	det
10	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 towel	amod
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 towel	amod
12	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cape	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bull	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bull	det
15	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 towel	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	a scientist	a red cape and a flapping blue towel at a bull					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient
2	flap	gerund							vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Which will it most likely charge?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 charge	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 charge	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 charge	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 charge	advmod
6	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 charge	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	future	scientist					likely property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location which=Theme

The options

Option 1

Both at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Both	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The flapping blue towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 towel	det
2	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 towel	amod
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 towel	amod
4	towel	towel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	gerund							vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The still red cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cape	det
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 red	advmod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cape	amod
4	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Neither, bulls only charge people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 charge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charge	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 charge	advmod
5	charge	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 charge	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	bulls	people					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location people=Theme

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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