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Test 8 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

A bat hangs very still in a cold cave all winter, with a slow heartbeat. What is it doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bat · What happens: hang, do · To what, where: cold cave

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» of the world 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: A bat hangs very still in a cold cave all winter, with a slow heartbeat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bat	det
2	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	nsubj
3	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 hangs	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cave	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cave	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cave	amod
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 winter	det
11	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heartbeat	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 heartbeat	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heartbeat	det
15	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heartbeat	amod
16	heartbeat	heartbeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hangs	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hangs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	present	a bat			a cold cave	still; winter	with a slow heartbeat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location

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 is it doing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 doing	obj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · progressive	bat						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Hunting for moths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 moths	case
3	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund						for moths	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for moth=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hibernating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hibernating	hibernate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	gerund							vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 3

Migrating south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Migrating	migrate	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	south	south	ADV	_	1 Migrating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	migrate	gerund						south property	tree rules

Option 4

Building a nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Building	build	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nest	det
3	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Building	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	gerund		a nest					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

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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