Test 9 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…

«bats are just flying mice innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bats · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: mice innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 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	_	5 flying	punct
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flying	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flying	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 flying	advmod
5	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 right	csubj
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flying	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 flying	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	present · progressive	bats	mice innit					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location innit=Theme
2	is	present						right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, bats are a separate group of mammals, not mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 group	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 group	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
6	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 group	amod
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 mammals	case
9	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mice	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mice	advmod
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mammals	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bats	a separate group				of mammals and mice	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, bats are just mice that grew wings when they got old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 mice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mice	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mice	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 mice	advmod
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mice	acl:relcl
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	advcl
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bats	mice		tree rules
2	grow	past	mice	wings		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
3	get	past	bats = bat		old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yes, mice turn into bats when old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 bats	case
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 old	mark
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	mice			bats		old property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bat=Trajectory

Option 4

No, bats are birds with fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 birds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 fur	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	bats	birds				with fur	tree rules

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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