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Test 9 · ★★ · Bats near home: pipistrelles, noctules, bat boxes and why…

You walk with a bat detector and the steady clicks suddenly become a fast buzz. What just happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, steady clicks · What happens: walk, become, happen · To what, where: fast buzz

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: You walk with a bat detector and the steady clicks suddenly become a fast buzz.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 detector	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 detector	det
5	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 detector	compound
6	detector	detector	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 become	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 clicks	det
9	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clicks	amod
10	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 become	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 become	advmod
12	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 buzz	det
14	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 buzz	amod
15	buzz	buzz	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 become	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	You					with a bat detector	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	present	the steady clicks	a fast buzz				suddenly property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: What just happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 happened	advmod
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bat was closing in on an insect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 closing	aux
4	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 closing	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 insect	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 insect	det
8	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 closing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close in	past · progressive	the bat					on a insect	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A big bird swooped and scared the bat away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swooped	nsubj
4	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scared	cc
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swooped	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bat	det
8	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swoop	past	a big bird						tree rules
2	scare away	past	a big bird not said here	the bat				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bat=Experiencer

Option 3

The batteries ran out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 batteries	det
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	past	the batteries						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The bat fell asleep in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the bat			the air		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in air=Location

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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