Test 2 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

«there's a bat on the patio in daylight, can i just pick it up and put it in a box» What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bat, i · What happens: be, pick up, put, happen · To what, where: bat, box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bat	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 's	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 patio	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 patio	det
8	patio	patio	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bat	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 daylight	case
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 patio	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pick	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 pick	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 pick	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 pick	advmod
15	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 's	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pick	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 pick	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 put	cc
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 pick	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 put	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 box	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 box	det
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 box	punct
25	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 happen	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 happen	aux
27	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	parataxis
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	a bat on the patio in daylight		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick up in a quote	can	i	bat		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	put in a quote	infinitive	i not said here	bat	a box	tree rules
4	happen	should				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, pick it up and cuddle it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pick	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pick	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cuddle	cc
7	cuddle	cuddle	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pick	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cuddle	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	cuddle	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent

Option 2

Leave it out in the sun to warm up for a week, then it will fly away

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	out	out	ADP	_	1 Leave	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warm	mark
8	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 warm	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 week	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 week	det
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warm	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fly	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 fly	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fly	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 fly	aux
17	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave out	imperative	you not said here	it	the sun			vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	warm up	to-infinitive	you not said here			week		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fly away	future	sun			then	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Do not touch it; tell a grown-up, who calls a bat helpline or vet

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 touch	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 touch	advmod
3	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 touch	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 touch	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grown	det
8	grown	grown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grown	compound
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 calls	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 calls	nsubj
13	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 helpline	det
15	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helpline	compound
16	helpline	helpline	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calls	obj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 vet	cc
18	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helpline	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not touch	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		a grown	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown=Recipient
3	call	present		a bat helpline or vet	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helpline=Recipient

Option 4

Yes, then throw it up so it can fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 throw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 throw	advmod
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 fly	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fly	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 throw	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw up	imperative	you not said here	it			then		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	fly	can	it						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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