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title: Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening. Which is true a… — Myth check: are bats blind? · tree and pragmatics
description: Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening. Which is true about real bats? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 153 «Myth check: are bats blind?» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Myth check: are bats blind?

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Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening. Which is true about real bats?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Batman · **What happens:** wear, look, be · **To what, where:** dark bat costume

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 153 «Myth check: are bats blind?» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/153-are-bats-blind/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:1
# text = Batman wears a dark bat costume to look frightening.
1	Batman	batman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	costume	costume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Batman | a dark bat costume |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent costume=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | Batman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | frightening *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which is true about real bats?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:2
# text = Which is true about real bats?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about real bats; true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Most are shy and useful, eating pests and spreading seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:o1:1
# text = Most are shy and useful, eating pests and spreading seeds
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	pests	pest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Most |  |  |  |  | shy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Most *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | Most *not said here* | pests and spreading seeds |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pest=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bats are a kind of bird, just one with fur instead of feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:o2:1
# text = Bats are a kind of bird, just one with fur instead of feathers
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bats | a kind |  |  |  | of bird; instead feathers | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Bats only come out at Halloween

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:o3:1
# text = Bats only come out at Halloween
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Halloween	Halloween	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | present | Bats |  |  | Halloween |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All bats are dangerous to people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:153-are-bats-blind:t4:o4:1
# text = All bats are dangerous to people
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all bats |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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**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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