Test 9 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

«bumblebee rolling a ball, prob just a mistake» What made scientists call it play?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bumblebee, mistake, scientists · What happens: roll, make, call, play · To what, where: ball · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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	_	2 bumblebee	punct
2	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mistake	nsubj
3	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bumblebee	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prob	punct
7	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bumblebee	conj
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 mistake	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mistake	det
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 mistake	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mistake	acl:relcl
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 call	nsubj
15	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 made	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 call	obj
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 made	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	roll in a quote	gerund	bumblebee and prob not said here	a ball	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	make	past	a mistake		tree rules
3	call speech: assert	present	scientists	ball	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
4	play	infinitive	a mistake not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «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.

The options

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

They did it again and again with no reward

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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	obj
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 did	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 again	cc
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 again	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 reward	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 reward	det
9	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	They	it			again	with no reward	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

They were paid with sugar water each time they rolled one

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 paid	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paid	aux:pass
3	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paid	obl:unmarked
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rolled	nsubj
10	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 paid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · passive		They			time	with sugar water	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient one=Asset
2	roll	past	they	each time not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Agent

Option 3

They were forced to

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 forced	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	3 forced	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		They					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 4

It happened only once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 once	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 happened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It					once property	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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