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Test 10 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…

In experiments, a barn owl caught a mouse in a completely dark room. How?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: barn owl · What happens: catch · To what, where: mouse, experiments

This is test 10 of lesson 301 «Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and burrowing 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

Sentence 1: In experiments, a barn owl caught a mouse in a completely dark room.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 experiments	case
2	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 caught	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 experiments	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 owl	det
5	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owl	compound
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	nsubj
7	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 room	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 room	det
12	completely	completely	ADV	_	13 dark	advmod
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 room	amod
14	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 caught	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a barn owl	a mouse		experiments		in a dark room	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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: How?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It saw the mouse with its special night eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
7	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	compound
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	It	the mouse				with mouse's special night eyes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 2

It smelled the mouse from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 smelled	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	It	the mouse				far property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It heard the mouse and pounced on the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pounced	cc
6	pounced	pounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heard	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sound	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	It	the mouse					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus
2	pounce	participle				the sound			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sound=Trajectory

Option 4

The mouse ran into it by luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 luck	case
7	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the mouse			it		by luck	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination

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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