Test 6 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

What do bats use besides their eyes to find their way at night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bats · What happens: use, find · To what, where: way

This is test 6 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 use	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	besides	besides	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 eyes	nmod:poss
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	bats					besides bats's eyes	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	bats not said here	bats's way			night		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

The light of the Moon and the stars only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 light	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stars	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stars	det
8	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 light	conj
9	only	only	ADV	_	8 stars	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light			the Moon					nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The smell of the trees and flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flowers	cc
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		the trees and flowers						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Echoes of the sounds they make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sounds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sounds	det
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Echoes	nmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Echoes of the sounds						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 4

The warmth rising from the ground below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 warmth	det
2	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 warmth	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rising	obl
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 ground	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	the warmth not said here			the ground			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ground=Initial_Location

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