Test 10 · ★ · Wild birds, bats and germs from animals

bat on the ground, poor thing, pick it up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poor thing · What happens: pick up · To what, where: bat

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 29 «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday 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	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 ground	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bat	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pick	punct
9	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pick	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 pick	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	infinitive	poor thing not said here	bat					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

No, never touch a bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 touch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 touch	advmod
4	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	imperative	you not said here	a bat					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bat=Co-Theme

Option 2

Take it home in a shoe box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Take	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	it		a shoe box		home property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in box=Location

Option 3

Yes, with bare hands gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 hands	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hands	case
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 hands	advmod

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

Option 4

Yes, if it looks tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 looks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 looks	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 looks	nsubj
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	it					tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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