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Test 9 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend

In a cartoon, a bat bumps into everything because "bats are blind as a bat". What's the correction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat, bats, correction · What happens: bump, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 a cartoon, a bat bumps into everything because "bats are blind as a bat".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bumps	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bumps	nsubj
7	bumps	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 bumps	obl
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 blind	mark
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 blind	punct
12	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blind	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 blind	cop
14	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bumps	advcl
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 bat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bat	det
17	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blind	obl
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 blind	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 bumps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	present	a bat			a cartoon		into everything	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into everything=Location
2	is in a quote	present	bats					as a bat; blind property	tree rules

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's the correction?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 correction	det
4	correction	correction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the correction						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Bats can see, and many use echolocation too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 use	cc
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 use	nsubj
7	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	ccomp
8	echolocation	echolocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 use	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Bats						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	use	present	many	echolocation					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echolocation=Patient

Option 2

Bats use their noses to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	nsubj
2	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 noses	nmod:poss
4	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 use	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 use	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Bats	Bats's noses					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
2	see	to-infinitive	Bats not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Bats can only see in colour, and only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 colour	case
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 night	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 night	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 night	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	Bats			colour	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Bats really are totally blind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bats	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bats not said here					blind, totally property	tree rules

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