Test 4 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…

«u cant tell me bats are friends, they r creepy blood suckers» What does science show about vampire bats?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, bats, science · What happens: tell, be, show · To what, where: me, friends · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 u	amod
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 friends	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 friends	cop
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 r	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 r	nsubj
11	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	conj
12	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 suckers	amod
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 suckers	compound
14	suckers	sucker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 r	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 show	obj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 show	aux
18	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	nsubj
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	parataxis
20	about	about	ADP	_	22 bats	case
21	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bats	compound
22	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	u		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	bats	friends			tree rules
3	show	present · do-support	science			about vampire bats	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient about bat=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

They share food with roost-mates, often ones that shared with them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 share	nsubj
2	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 share	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 mates	case
5	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mates	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 roost	punct
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 share	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ones	punct
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 ones	advmod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 share	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 shared	nsubj
12	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ones	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	present	They	food				with roost mates; ones obl	tree rules
2	share	past	ones					with mates = mate	tree rules

Option 2

Only flying foxes have friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 flying	advmod
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 foxes	amod
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	flying foxes	friends					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 3

They steal food from each other every night, even from their own babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 steal	nsubj
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 steal	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 steal	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 babies	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 babies	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 babies	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 babies	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 babies	amod
14	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	present	They	food		each	night		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from each=Source

Option 4

They never help each other at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 help	advmod
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 help	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present	They	each		all			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary

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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