Test 5 · ★ · The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and…

«how do these owls hunt when it's daytime at midnight lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: owls, it · What happens: hunt, be · To what, where: daytime

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 168 «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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	_	6 hunt	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 do	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunt	aux
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 owls	det
5	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunt	nsubj
6	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 daytime	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 daytime	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 daytime	cop
10	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunt	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 midnight	case
12	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 daytime	nmod
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 hunt	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 hunt	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunt	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hunt in a quote	present · do-support	this owls				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	it	daytime	midnight		tree rules
3	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

They wait for the winter dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wait	nsubj
2	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 winter	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wait	obl
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	present	They				winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Snowy owls hunt in daylight too, because the summer sun never sets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owls	amod
2	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
6	too	too	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sets	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 sets	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	compound
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sets	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 sets	advmod
13	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Snowy owls			daylight			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in daylight=Location
2	not set	present	the summer sun						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They do not hunt in summer at all, they live on fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunt	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hunt	advmod
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hunt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 live	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 live	nsubj
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 fat	case
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	present · do-support	They			all	summer		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location
2	live	present	they			fat			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location

Option 4

They wear sunglasses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wear	nsubj
2	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sunglasses	sunglasses	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	They	sunglasses					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunglasses=Source

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