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Test 6 · ★★ · Cartoon pets and animal myths put right

A cartoon owl wears glasses and is the wisest in the forest. Which is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon owl · What happens: wear, be · To what, where: glasses, forest

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 228 «Cartoon pets and animal myths put right» 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: A cartoon owl wears glasses and is the wisest in the forest.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owl	compound
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wears	nsubj
4	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wears	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wisest	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wisest	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wisest	det
9	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 wears	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wisest	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	a cartoon owl	glasses					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent glass=Source
2	is	present	a cartoon owl not said here			the forest		wise 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.

Sentence 2: Which is closer to the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the truth; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Owls are great hunters, but crows and parrots are better puzzle solvers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunters	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hunters	cop
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hunters	amod
4	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 solvers	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 solvers	cc
7	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 solvers	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 parrots	cc
9	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crows	conj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 solvers	cop
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 solvers	amod
12	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 solvers	compound
13	solvers	solver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Owls	great hunters but better puzzle solvers					tree rules
2	is a	present	crows and parrots	better puzzle solvers					tree rules

Option 2

Owls can read

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 read	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	can	Owls						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Owls are the cleverest birds of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
4	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 birds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Owls	the cleverest birds				of all	tree rules

Option 4

Owls cannot hunt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hunt	advmod
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	can	Owls			all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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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