Test 10 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

«why would a bat pick a sunny box some days and a shady one other days» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat, shady one · What happens: pick, day, be · To what, where: sunny box, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 315 «Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why never to pick one up» 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	_	6 pick	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 pick	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pick	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	nsubj
6	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
8	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 box	amod
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pick	obj
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 days	det
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 answer	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 days	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 days	nsubj
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 days	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 days	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 answer	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 answer	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 answer	det
22	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 answer	amod
23	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	acl:relcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pick in a quote	would	a bat	a sunny box	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient
2	day in a quote		a shady one		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer	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

To stay at a comfortable temperature, warmer or cooler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 temperature	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 temperature	det
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 temperature	amod
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warmer	punct
8	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 temperature	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cooler	cc
10	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 warmer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive				a comfortable temperature			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at temperature=Location

Option 2

They follow the cat around the garden and sleep wherever it sleeps

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 follow	nsubj
2	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follow	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 follow	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleep	cc
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 garden	conj
10	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	12 sleeps	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sleeps	nsubj
12	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 follow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	They	the cat		the garden and sleep			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cat=Theme around garden=Trajectory
2	sleep	present	cat					wherever property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Bats like to sunbathe for a tan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sunbathe	mark
4	sunbathe	sunbathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 tan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tan	det
7	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sunbathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Bats						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sunbathe not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bats not said here					for a tan	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Sunny boxes are always full of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunny	sunny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boxes	compound
2	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 full	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 full	advmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sunny boxes					of food; always, full property	tree rules

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