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Test 6 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…

A fox comes near a burrowing owl's hole and hears a rattlesnake hiss. What is most likely really happening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: come, burrow, hear, be · To what, where: hole, rattlesnake hiss

This is test 6 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: A fox comes near a burrowing owl's hole and hears a rattlesnake hiss.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	9 hole	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	burrowing	burrow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 owl	case
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hears	cc
11	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hiss	det
13	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hiss	compound
14	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hears	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	a fox			a burrowing owl's hole			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hole=Location
2	burrow	gerund							vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	hear	present	a fox not said here	a rattlesnake hiss					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hiss=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 most likely really happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 happening	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 happening	advmod
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 happening	advmod
6	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happening	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The owl is calling its parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 calling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calling	aux
4	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 parents	nmod:poss
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 calling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present · progressive	the owl		owl's parents				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient

Option 2

A snake has eaten all the owls and is now living in their burrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 owls	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owls	det
7	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 living	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 living	aux
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 living	advmod
11	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 eaten	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 burrow	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 burrow	nmod:poss
14	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 living	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect · passive		a snake					tree rules
2	live	present · progressive				owls's burrow	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The owl chicks are hissing like a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chicks	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chicks	compound
3	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hissing	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hissing	aux
5	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 snake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snake	det
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hissing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hiss	present · progressive	the owl chicks					like a snake	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The fox is hearing its own echo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hearing	aux
4	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 echo	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 echo	amod
7	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · progressive	the fox	fox's own echo					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer echo=Stimulus

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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