Test 8 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…

Why would a bat with white fur hide well under a leaf?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat · What happens: hide · To what, where: leaf

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 hide	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hide	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bat	det
4	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 fur	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fur	amod
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bat	nmod
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hide	advmod
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 leaf	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 leaf	det
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would	a bat with white fur			a leaf		well property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under leaf=Location

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

Light through the leaf makes the white fur look green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	nsubj
2	through	through	ADP	_	4 leaf	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaf	det
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Light	nmod
5	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fur	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fur	amod
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 makes	obj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 makes	xcomp
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Light through the leaf	the white fur					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the white fur not said here					green property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

White fur is invisible in bright sunlight, like glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fur	amod
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invisible	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 invisible	cop
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sunlight	amod
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invisible	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 glass	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 glass	case
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invisible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	White fur			bright sunlight		invisible property	tree rules

Option 3

The leaf paints the fur every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaf	det
2	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paints	nsubj
3	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fur	det
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paints	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paints	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	the leaf	the fur			day		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fur=Destination

Option 4

Snakes cannot see the colour white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 white	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	compound
7	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Snakes	the colour white					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer white=Stimulus

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