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Test 6 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

A cat's eyes shine green in the car lights. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eyes · What happens: shine · To what, where: car lights

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: A cat's eyes shine green in the car lights.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cat	case
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shine	nsubj
5	shine	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shine	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 lights	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lights	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lights	compound
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shine	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	a cat's eyes			the car lights		green property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Its eyes make their own light, like a glow-worm does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 light	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 light	amod
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 does	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 does	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 worm	det
10	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 worm	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 glow	punct
12	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 does	nsubj
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Its eyes	eyes's own light					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product
2	do	present	a glow worm						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	light		eyes = eye						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A shiny layer at the back of the eye reflects the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reflects	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eye	det
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod
10	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 reflects	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	a shiny layer at the back of the eye	the light					tree rules

Option 3

Its eyes are full of fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its eyes					of fire; full property	tree rules

Option 4

It is angry at the car

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			the car		angry property	tree rules

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