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title: «blind as a bat lol» What is right? — Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm… · tree and pragmatics
description: «blind as a bat lol» What is right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«blind as a bat lol» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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/179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave:t1:1
# text = «blind as a bat lol» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bats see only colours, not shapes, so they bump into every wall and tree

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave:t1:o1:1
# text = Bats see only colours, not shapes, so they bump into every wall and tree
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	bump	bump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Bats | colours and shapes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bump** | present | Bats *= bat* |  |  | every wall and tree |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wall=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bats are not blind: many see well and also use echoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave:t1:o2:1
# text = Bats are not blind: many see well and also use echoes
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	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Bats |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | many |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **use** | present | many *not said here* | echoes |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent echo=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, bats have no eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave:t1:o3:1
# text = Right, bats have no eyes
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | bats | no eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, bats see only at noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave:t1:o4:1
# text = Right, bats see only at noon
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | bats |  |  |  | noon |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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