Test 8 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

In a cartoon Batman's bats live in a dark cave and all hang there all year round. What do real British bats do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bats, real British bats · What happens: live, hang, be, do · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: In a cartoon Batman's bats live in a dark cave and all hang there all year round.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
4	Batman	Batman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bats	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Batman	case
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cave	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cave	det
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cave	amod
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hang	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hang	advmod
14	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 live	conj
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 hang	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hang	obl:unmarked
18	round	round	ADV	_	14 hang	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Batman's bats			a cartoon		in a dark cave	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location
2	hang	present	Batman's bats not said here			there	year	round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: What do real British bats do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bats	amod
4	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bats	amod
5	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	real British bats						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Fly south to Africa every winter like swallows, and come back to Britain each spring to roost

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	south	south	ADV	_	1 Fly	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fly	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 winter	det
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fly	obl:unmarked
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 swallows	case
8	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
11	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Fly	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Britain	case
14	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl:unmarked
17	to	to	PART	_	18 roost	mark
18	roost	roost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here	Africa	winter	like swallows; south property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result
2	come back	infinitive	you not said here		spring		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	roost	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sleep all summer and fly all winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 summer	det
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleep	nmod:unmarked
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fly	cc
5	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Sleep	acl:relcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	Sleep all summer not said here				winter		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Live in one cave for ever and never move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 cave	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cave	nummod
4	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Live	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Live	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 move	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 move	advmod
9	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Live	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	imperative	you not said here			one cave			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location
2	not move	infinitive	you not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Raise babies in summer roosts like roofs and trees, and hibernate somewhere cool in winter

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Raise	raise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 babies	compound
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hibernate	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 roosts	case
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roosts	compound
5	roosts	roost	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 babies	nmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 roofs	case
7	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roosts	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 trees	cc
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roofs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hibernate	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hibernate	cc
12	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 hibernate	advmod
14	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 somewhere	amod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	present	Raise babies in summer roosts like roofs and trees				winter	somewhere property	vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

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