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Test 2 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

A friend says: «wolves howl at the full moon, everyone knows that». What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, wolves, everyone · What happens: say, howl, know, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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 friend says: «wolves howl at the full moon, everyone knows that».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 howl	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 howl	punct
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 howl	nsubj
7	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 moon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moon	amod
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 howl	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
13	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 knows	nsubj
14	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 howl	conj
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 knows	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 knows	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	howl in a quote	present	wolves					at the full moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus
3	know in a quote	present	everyone	that					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

They never howl

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	3 howl	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 howl	advmod
3	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not howl	present	They						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They howl only at the Sun

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 howl	nsubj
2	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 Sun	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 howl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	present	They					at the Sun	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at sun=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They howl only at the full moon, because its bright light hurts their eyes so much

The tree, 16 words

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 howl	nsubj
2	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 moon	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 moon	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moon	amod
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 howl	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hurts	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 hurts	mark
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 light	nmod:poss
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hurts	nsubj
13	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 howl	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 eyes	nmod:poss
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hurts	obj
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	13 hurts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	present	They					at the full moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus
2	hurt	present	moon's bright light	their eyes					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Patient
3	light		moon						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They howl at any time, more at dusk and night, heads up so the sound carries

The tree, 16 words

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 howl	nsubj
2	howl	howl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 howl	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 more	punct
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 up	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dusk	case
9	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 night	cc
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dusk	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heads	punct
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dusk	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	2 howl	advmod
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 carries	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sound	det
17	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carries	nsubj
18	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 howl	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	present	They				time		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	present	the sound						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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