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Test 4 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

A garden has a flower that looks plain white to you. Why might bees still find it very easy to spot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: garden, flower, bees · What happens: have, look, find, spot · To what, where: flower

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A garden has a flower that looks plain white to you.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 garden	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flower	acl:relcl
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 white	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looks	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 white	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a garden	a flower					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
2	look	present	a flower					white property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why might bees still find it very easy to spot?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 find	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 easy	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 easy	advmod
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 spot	mark
10	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easy	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	might	bees	flower			still		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	spot	to-infinitive							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

The options

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

It may have ultraviolet markings bees can see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 markings	amod
5	markings	marking	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 see	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 markings	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	may	It	ultraviolet markings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marking=Patient
2	see	can	bees	ultraviolet markings not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marking=Stimulus

Option 2

Bees only visit plain flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 visit	advmod
3	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	present	Bees	plain flowers					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent

Option 3

Bees cannot see white at all, so they never visit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 white	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 visit	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 visit	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 visit	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 visit	advmod
12	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Bees					white property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not visit	present	Bees = bee						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

White flowers have no nectar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 nectar	det
5	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	White flowers	no nectar					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=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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