Test 5 · The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and rei…
«Hedwig's a girl owl, so it was a girl owl in the film, yeah?» What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hedwig, it · What happens: be · To what, where: girl owl, film
This is test 5 of lesson 106 «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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.
The question
Sentence 1: «Hedwig's a girl owl, so it was a girl owl in the film, yeah?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 owl | punct |
| 2 | Hedwig | Hedwig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 owl | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 owl | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owl | compound |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 owl | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 owl | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 owl | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 owl | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 owl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owl | compound |
| 13 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owl | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 film | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 film | det |
| 16 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owl | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 owl | punct |
| 18 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 owl | discourse |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 owl | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 owl | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Hedwig | a girl owl and a girl owl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | it | a girl owl | the film | 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.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 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 |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It was a white pigeon painted to look like an owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pigeon | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pigeon | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pigeon | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pigeon | amod |
| 5 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pigeon | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 painted | xcomp |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 owl | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 owl | det |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a white pigeon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | a white pigeon not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | like a owl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, only female owls were used
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 owls | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 owls | advmod |
| 4 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 owls | amod |
| 5 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | aux:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | female owls | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 3
It was a robot, never a real owl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 robot | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 robot | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 robot | det |
| 4 | robot | robot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 owl | punct |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 owl | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 owl | det |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 owl | amod |
| 9 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robot | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a robot and a real owl | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The film used whiter male snowy owls to play her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 film | acl |
| 4 | whiter | whiter | ADP | _ | 7 owls | case |
| 5 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 owls | amod |
| 6 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 owls | amod |
| 7 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 used | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 play | mark |
| 9 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | the film not said here | whiter male snowy owls | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | her = she | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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