Test 10 · ★★ · When the teacher gets it wrong
Mrs Patel says "Bats are blind, that's why they use echolocation." What's true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mrs, Bats, that · What happens: say, be, use · To what, where: echolocation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 33 «When the teacher gets it wrong» 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: Mrs Patel says "Bats are blind, that's why they use echolocation."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs | Mrs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 2 | Patel | Patel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mrs | flat |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blind | punct |
| 5 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blind | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blind | cop |
| 7 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 says | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 why | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 why | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 why | cop |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 blind | parataxis |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 use | nsubj |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 why | advcl:relcl |
| 14 | echolocation | echolocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blind | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 blind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mrs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Bats | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | present | Bats = bat | echolocation | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echolocation=Patient |
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 true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bats can see; echolocation adds to sight
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 | _ | 6 adds | punct |
| 5 | echolocation | echolocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adds | nsubj |
| 6 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sight | mark |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 adds | obj |
| # | 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»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | echolocation | sight | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient |
Option 2
Echolocation is just a word for 'blind seeing'
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Echolocation | echolocation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 word | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 word | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 blind | case |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 blind | punct |
| 8 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seeing | obl |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 word | acl |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Echolocation | a word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a word not said here | for blind | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Bats are completely blind, and deaf as well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blind | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | cop |
| 3 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 blind | advmod |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deaf | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 deaf | cc |
| 7 | deaf | deaf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 blind | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 7 deaf | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 as | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bats | blind, completely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Bats not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Bats only use their eyes, never any echoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bats | bat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 use | advmod |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 echoes | punct |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 echoes | advmod |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 echoes | det |
| 9 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Bats | Bats's eyes | any echoes obl | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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