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Test 2 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…

Count them: an eagle owl has two tall tufts on its head. How many real ears does it have?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, eagle owl, many real ears · What happens: count, have · To what, where: them, two tall tufts, head

This is test 2 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: Count them: an eagle owl has two tall tufts on its head.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 owl	det
5	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 owl	compound
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Count	parataxis
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 tufts	nummod
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tufts	amod
10	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 has	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tufts	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	have	present	a eagle owl	two tall tufts		owl's head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuft=Patient

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 many real ears does it have?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ears	amod
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ears	amod
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	many real ears						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

4, two tufts and two hidden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 tufts	nummod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tufts	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tufts	nummod
4	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 two	cc
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 tufts	appos
7	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 two	amod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

None, owls hear through their feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 owls	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 None	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	None owls			owls's feet			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

2, inside the tufts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 2	punct
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 tufts	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tufts	det
5	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 2	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

2, hidden at the sides of its head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hidden	punct
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 2	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sides	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sides	det
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hidden	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sides	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	participle				the sides of its head			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=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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