Test 7 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

What would happen to a local group of bats if a house owner sealed up the roof where they raise their babies?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: house owner, bats · What happens: happen, seal up, raise · To what, where: roof, babies

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 group	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
6	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 group	amod
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 bats	case
9	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 sealed	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 owner	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 owner	compound
13	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sealed	nsubj
14	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 sealed	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sealed	obj
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 raise	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 raise	nsubj
20	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 roof	acl:relcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 babies	nmod:poss
22	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 raise	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a local group of bats	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seal up a condition, not said to happen	participle	a house owner	the roof		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
3	raise	present	bats = bat	bats's babies		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=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

Nothing, bats raise babies anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 raise	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 raise	nsubj
4	raise	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 raise	obj
6	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 raise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	bats	babies				Nothing vocative; anywhere property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme

Option 2

They would move into the fridge

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	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 fridge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fridge	det
6	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They			the fridge			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fridge=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The mothers would lose their nursery, and with one baby a year the group could shrink

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mothers	det
2	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nursery	nmod:poss
6	nursery	nursery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shrink	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shrink	cc
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 baby	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 baby	nummod
11	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shrink	obl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 year	det
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 baby	nmod:unmarked
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 group	det
15	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shrink	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 shrink	aux
17	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lose	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the mothers	mothers's nursery					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nursery=Eventuality
2	shrink	could	the group					with one baby a year	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with baby=Instrument

Option 4

The bats would simply lay their eggs outside instead, in little nests in the garden hedge

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bats	det
2	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lay	aux
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eggs	nmod:poss
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obj
8	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nests	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 nests	case
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nests	amod
13	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lay	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 hedge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hedge	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hedge	compound
17	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	the bats	bats's eggs		little nests in the garden hedge		instead, outside, simply property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination

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