Test 7 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: t…

Real life: how do bats find their way in the dark?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bats · What happens: find · To what, where: way, dark

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 94 «Just So Stories, The Cat that Walked by Himself, part 2: the bargain, the Bat and the Baby» of the books 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 find	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	nsubj
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	parataxis
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · do-support	bats	bats's way		the dark			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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

By the stars overhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 stars	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stars	det
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	3 stars	advmod

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

Option 2

With wings that glow green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	2 wings	case
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 glow	nsubj
4	glow	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wings	acl:relcl
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	wings					green property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By echoes of their squeaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 echoes	case
2	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 squeaks	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 squeaks	nmod:poss
5	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 echoes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak		echoes = echo						nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

By listening to echoes of their own high squeaks bouncing off things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 listening	mark
2	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 echoes	case
4	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 listening	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 squeaks	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 squeaks	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squeaks	amod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squeaks	amod
9	squeaks	squeak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 echoes	nmod
10	bouncing	bounce	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 squeaks	acl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 bouncing	compound:prt
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bouncing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund			to echoes of echoes's own high squeaks	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to echo=Theme
2	bounce off	gerund	echoes's own high squeaks not said here	things		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Agent
3	squeak		echoes = echo			nom squeak «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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