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title: «u cant tell me bats are friends, they r creepy blood suckers» What… — Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampi… · tree and pragmatics
description: «u cant tell me bats are friends, they r creepy blood suckers» What does science show about vampire bats? Test 4 of lesson 314 «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 4 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…

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«u cant tell me bats are friends, they r creepy blood suckers» What does science show about vampire bats?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** u, bats, science · **What happens:** tell, be, show · **To what, where:** me, friends · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 314 «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers:t4:1
# text = «u cant tell me bats are friends, they r creepy blood suckers» What does science show about vampire bats?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	cant	cant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	r	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	creepy	creepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	suckers	sucker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	vampire	vampire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | u |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | bats | friends |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **show** | present · do-support | science |  |  |  |  | about vampire bats | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient about bat=Topic |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They share food with roost-mates, often ones that shared with them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers:t4:o1:1
# text = They share food with roost-mates, often ones that shared with them
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	share	share	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	roost	roost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | present | They | food |  |  |  | with roost mates; ones *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **share** | past | ones |  |  |  |  | with mates *= mate* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only flying foxes have friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers:t4:o2:1
# text = Only flying foxes have friends
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | flying foxes | friends |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They steal food from each other every night, even from their own babies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers:t4:o3:1
# text = They steal food from each other every night, even from their own babies
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	steal	steal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | present | They | food |  | each | night |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from each=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They never help each other at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers:t4:o4:1
# text = They never help each other at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	3	obj	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | present | They | each |  | all |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary |

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