Test 11 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…
An owl and an osprey both catch slippery prey. What do their feet share?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl, feet · What happens: catch, share · To what, where: slippery prey
This is test 11 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: An owl and an osprey both catch slippery prey.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 osprey | cc |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 osprey | det |
| 5 | osprey | osprey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 owl | conj |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prey | amod |
| 9 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catch | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 catch | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present | a owl and a osprey | slippery prey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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: What do their feet share?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 share | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 share | aux |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 share | nsubj |
| 5 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present · do-support | owl's feet | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Webbed feet for swimming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Webbed | web | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Webbed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 swimming | case |
| 4 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Webbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | web | participle | feet | for swimming | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
An outer toe that can swing to the back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 toe | det |
| 2 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 toe | amod |
| 3 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 swing | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 swing | aux |
| 6 | swing | swing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 toe | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | can | a outer toe | the back | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to back=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Little suckers on every toe, like an octopus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 suckers | amod |
| 2 | suckers | sucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 toe | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 toe | det |
| 5 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suckers | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 octopus | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 octopus | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 octopus | det |
| 9 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suckers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five toes on each foot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 toes | nummod |
| 2 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 foot | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 toes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/301-owls-of-the-world-barn-owls-eagle-owls-elf-owls-and-burrowing-owls/t11/