Test 1 · ★ · Foxes and squirrels

«heard a woman screaming outside at 2am, mum says it's just a fox» Can that be true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman, mum, am, that · What happens: hear, scream, say, be · To what, where: woman, 2, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 215 «Foxes and squirrels» 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	_	2 heard	punct
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 woman	acl
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 screaming	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 2	case
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 heard	obl
9	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 2	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 fox	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fox	cop
15	just	just	ADV	_	17 fox	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fox	det
17	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	ccomp
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 fox	punct
19	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 true	aux
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 true	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 true	cop
22	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 says	parataxis
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past		a woman	2 am		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus
2	scream speech: express in a quote	gerund	a woman not said here			outside property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mum				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	am = a.m.	a fox			tree rules
5	is	can	that			true 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, foxes scream at night, mostly in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 scream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scream	nsubj
4	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scream	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 winter	punct
8	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	10 winter	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 winter	case
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scream	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	foxes				night; winter		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, but only in summer, when the cubs are born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 born	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 born	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cubs	det
10	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 born	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 born	aux:pass
12	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 summer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive		the cubs					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, foxes are silent animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animals	cop
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	foxes	silent animals					tree rules

Option 4

No, only owls scream like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 scream	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scream	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 owls	advmod
4	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scream	nsubj
5	scream	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 scream	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present	owls					like that	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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