Test 7 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell
A diver is bleeding a little in the sea. Why should they leave the water quickly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: diver, they · What happens: bleed, leave · To what, where: little, sea, water
This is test 7 · ★★ 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 diver is bleeding a little in the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 diver | det |
| 2 | diver | diver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bleeding | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bleeding | aux |
| 4 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bleeding | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bleeding | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bleeding | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bleed | present · progressive | a diver | a little | the sea | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent little=Source |
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 should they leave the water quickly?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 leave | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 leave | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | should | they | the water | quickly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Blood makes the water around it too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 water | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | around | around | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obl |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 cold | advmod |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Blood | the water | water | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material water=Product |
Option 2
Sharks can see the colour red from very far
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 red | det |
| 5 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 red | compound |
| 6 | red | red | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 far | case |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 see | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | Sharks | the colour red | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |
Option 3
Blood attracts the dolphins' clicking echoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 attracts | nsubj |
| 2 | attracts | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dolphins | det |
| 4 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 echoes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 4 dolphins | case |
| 6 | clicking | clicking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 echoes | compound |
| 7 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 attracts | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | present | Blood | the dolphins's clicking echoes | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sharks can smell blood from far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smell | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 smell | aux |
| 3 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smell | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 far | case |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 smell | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | can | Sharks | blood | far property | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/79-senses-of-animals/t7/