Test 13 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

my sister reckons cats can see in total darkness. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister, cats · What happens: reckon, see · To what, where: total darkness

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reckons	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 darkness	case
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 darkness	amod
9	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my sister						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	can	cats			total darkness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, cats see just as well with no light at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 see	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
3	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 as	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	4 see	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 as	fixed
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 light	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 light	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	cats					with no light at all	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, cats see well in dim light but not 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	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
7	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 darkness	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 darkness	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 darkness	case
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 darkness	amod
13	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 light	conj

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

Option 3

No, cats see worse than people in dim light

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	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 see	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worse	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 light	case
9	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 light	amod
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	cats			dim light		bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, their eyes make their own light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 light	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	their eyes	eyes's own light					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product
2	light		eyes = eye						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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