Test 3 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…
In a Dracula cartoon a vampire bat bites a man's neck and sucks out his blood. What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: vampire bat, truth · What happens: bite, suck out, be · To what, where: neck, Dracula cartoon, blood
This is test 3 of lesson 314 «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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 Dracula cartoon a vampire bat bites a man's neck and sucks out his blood.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cartoon | det |
| 3 | Dracula | Dracula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cartoon | compound |
| 4 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bites | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bat | det |
| 6 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bat | compound |
| 7 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bites | nsubj |
| 8 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neck | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bites | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sucks | cc |
| 14 | sucks | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bites | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 sucks | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sucks | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bites | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | a vampire bat | a man's neck | a Dracula cartoon | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent neck=Patient in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | suck out | present | a vampire bat not said here | bat's blood | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=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 the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Real vampire bats turn people into bats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bats | case |
| 7 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Real vampire bats | people | bats | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent people=Theme into bat=Trajectory |
Option 2
Real vampire bats only eat fruit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Real vampire bats | fruit | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
Option 3
Real vampire bats suck people dry every night through two hollow fangs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suck | nsubj |
| 4 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suck | obj |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 suck | xcomp |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 night | det |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suck | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 fangs | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 fangs | nummod |
| 11 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fangs | amod |
| 12 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 suck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | present | Real vampire bats | people | two hollow fangs | night | dry property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent people=Source |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Real vampire bats make a small cut on cattle or birds and lap the blood
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cut | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cut | amod |
| 7 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cattle | case |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 birds | cc |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cattle | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lap | cc |
| 13 | lap | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lap | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Real vampire bats | a small cut | on cattle or birds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cut=Product | |||
| 2 | lap | present | Real vampire bats not said here | the blood | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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