Test 2 · Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls

«Owl on telly turned his head right round, full circle, owls can do that innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Owl, owls, that · What happens: turn, do, innit, be · To what, where: head, full circle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
2	Owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 telly	case
4	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Owl	nmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 round	advmod
9	round	round	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 circle	punct
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 circle	amod
12	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
14	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 do	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 circle	acl:relcl
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 innit	nsubj
18	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 do	discourse
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
20	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 right	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 do	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	past	Owl on telly	Owl's head	full circle obl; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	do in a quote	can	owls	full circle not said here		tree rules
3	innit in a quote	infinitive	that			tree rules
4	is	present			right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, owls cannot turn their heads at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 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 2

Yes, owls can spin their heads all the way round, like a wheel on an axle

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 spin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	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	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 round	obl:unmarked
11	round	round	ADV	_	5 spin	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wheel	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 wheel	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spin	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 axle	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 axle	det
18	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wheel	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	can	owls	owls's heads				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, about 270 degrees, three-quarters of the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 degrees	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 degrees	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 270	advmod
4	270	270	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quarters	punct
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 quarters	nummod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 three	punct
9	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 degrees	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quarters	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, two full turns if they want

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 turns	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 turns	nummod
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turns	amod
5	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 want	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 want	nsubj
8	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turns	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	turns = turn						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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