Test 12 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

Ava says bats are blind and just bump around. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ava, bats · What happens: say, be, bump around · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blind	cop
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bump	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 bump	advmod
8	bump	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	conj
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 bump	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bump	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bump	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Ava		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	bats	blind property	tree rules
3	bump around	present	Ava not said here	around, true property	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, bats fly around with no way of finding food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 finding	mark
10	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 way	acl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 finding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly around	present	bats					with no way; around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	gerund	no way not said here	food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

Yes, but only the bats that eat fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 bats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 bats	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 bats	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bats	det
6	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bats	acl:relcl
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the bats	fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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

No, bats find insects in the dark using echoes of their sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 find	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 dark	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dark	det
8	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 find	advcl
10	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 using	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sounds	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sounds	nmod:poss
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 echoes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	bats	insects		the dark			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Topic
2	use	gerund	bats not said here	echoes of bats's sounds					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient

Option 4

No, bats see perfectly in total darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 darkness	case
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 darkness	amod
8	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	bats			total darkness		perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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