Test 4 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light
In old Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons, a big bat sucks blood from people's necks. What would you fix?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big bat, you · What happens: suck, fix · To what, where: blood, old Dracula stories
This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 old Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons, a big bat sucks blood from people's necks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stories | amod |
| 3 | Dracula | Dracula | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stories | compound |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sucks | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cartoons | cc |
| 6 | Halloween | Halloween | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cartoons | compound |
| 7 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stories | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stories | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bat | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bat | amod |
| 11 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sucks | nsubj |
| 12 | sucks | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sucks | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 necks | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 necks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 people | case |
| 17 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sucks | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sucks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | present | a big bat | blood | old Dracula stories and Halloween cartoons | from people's necks | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from neck=Source |
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 would you fix?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 fix | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fix | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fix | nsubj |
| 4 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | would | you | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Real vampire bats are as big as a person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bats | amod |
| 2 | vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bats | compound |
| 3 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 big | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 big | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 big | advmod |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 person | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 person | det |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 big | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Real vampire bats | as a person; big property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Vampire bats live only in the castles of Transylvania in Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vampire | vampire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bats | compound |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 castles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castles | det |
| 7 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Transylvania | case |
| 9 | Transylvania | Transylvania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 castles | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Europe | case |
| 11 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Transylvania | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Vampire bats | the castles of Transylvania in Europe | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
Option 3
All bats suck human blood at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 bats | det |
| 2 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suck | nsubj |
| 3 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blood | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suck | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 suck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | present | all bats | human blood | night | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Only three small kinds of bat lap a little blood, mostly from animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 three | advmod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 kinds | nummod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kinds | amod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lap | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 bat | case |
| 6 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | lap | lap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 blood | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blood | amod |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lap | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 animals | punct |
| 12 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 14 animals | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 animals | case |
| 14 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 blood | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lap | present | three small kinds of bat | a little blood and animals | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
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