Test 5 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…
In a cartoon, an owl spins its head round and round like a wheel. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: head, cartoon
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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: In a cartoon, an owl spins its head round and round like a wheel.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | nsubj |
| 7 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 spins | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 round | cc |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 round | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 wheel | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spins | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | a owl | owl's head | a cartoon | like a wheel; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, owls can spin their heads round for ever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 owls | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spin | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spin | aux |
| 5 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spin | obj |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 spin | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 ever | case |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 spin | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | can | Nothing owls | owls's heads | round property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent head=Result for ever=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Owls turn their eyes, not their heads, like we do
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heads | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 heads | advmod |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heads | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 turn | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Owls | Owls's eyes | Owls's heads obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Owls cannot turn their heads at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 turn | advmod |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn | can | Owls | Owls's heads | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Owls turn their heads only up to about 270 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heads | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 turn | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 degrees | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 270 | advmod |
| 9 | 270 | 270 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 degrees | nummod |
| 10 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | present | Owls | Owls's heads | 270 degrees | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme to degree=Trajectory |
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