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Test 5 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

Count them: a summer roost has 40 mother bats, and each usually has one baby. About how many babies are born?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, summer roost, each · What happens: count, have, bear · To what, where: them, 40 mother bats, one baby, many babies

This is test 5 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Count them: a summer roost has 40 mother bats, and each usually has one baby.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roost	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roost	compound
6	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
8	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 bats	nummod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bats	compound
10	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 has	nsubj
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 has	advmod
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 has	conj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 baby	nummod
17	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	have	present	a summer roost	40 mother bats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Patient
3	have	present	each	one baby				usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: About how many babies are born?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADP	_	4 babies	case
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 many	advmod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 babies	amod
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 born	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 born	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		many babies					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About 80

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 80	advmod
2	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

About 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 4	advmod
2	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

About 400

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 400	advmod
2	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About 40

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 40	advmod
2	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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