Test 3 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals
In the dark bat house a boy's camera flash keeps going off. What should he do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: camera flash, boy, flash · What happens: keep, go off, flash, do · To what, where: dark bat house
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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
Sentence 1: In the dark bat house a boy's camera flash keeps going off.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 4 | bat | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | compound |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keeps | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flash | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 9 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flash | compound |
| 10 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 keeps | nsubj |
| 11 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 keeps | xcomp |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 going | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 keeps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a boy's camera flash | the dark bat house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go off | gerund | a boy's camera flash not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flash | a boy | nom flash «event intransitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What should he do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | flash | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Use a brighter torch instead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 torch | det |
| 3 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 torch | amod |
| 4 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Use | obj |
| 5 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 1 Use | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | imperative | you not said here | a brighter torch | instead property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Keep taking photos, as the bats are blind anyway and cannot see it
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 3 | photos | photo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 taking | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blind | punct |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 blind | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bats | det |
| 7 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blind | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blind | cop |
| 9 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 10 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 1 Keep | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | anyway property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | you not said here | photos | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the bats | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not see | can | you not said here | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Turn the flash off, because it frightens the animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flash | det |
| 3 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Turn | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightens | punct |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 frightens | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 frightens | nsubj |
| 8 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 frightens | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn off | imperative | you not said here | the flash | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flash=Patient | ||||
| 2 | frighten | present | flash | the animals | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer |
Option 4
Bang on the glass to wake the bats first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 glass | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glass | det |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bang | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wake | mark |
| 6 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Bang | acl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bats | det |
| 8 | bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wake | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 wake | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | to-infinitive | the bats | first property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bat=Patient |
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