Test 6 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	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

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 · ✓ the right answer

Cats need at least a little light to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 least	case
4	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 light	nmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 light	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Cats	a little light		least			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot light=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Cats not said here	a little light not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Cats are blind in daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blind	cop
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cats			daylight		blind property	tree rules

Option 3

Cats see perfectly well in total darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 see	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 darkness	case
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 darkness	amod
7	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl

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

Option 4

Cats see only black and white shapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 black	advmod
4	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shapes	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 white	cc
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 black	conj
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Cats	black shapes					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus

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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