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Test 8 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…

In a cartoon, an owl hoots «twit-twoo» all by itself on a branch. What is more true in a real wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: hoot, be · To what, where: twit twoo, cartoon, real wood

This is test 8 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 a cartoon, an owl hoots «twit-twoo» all by itself on a branch.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoots	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 owl	det
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoots	nsubj
7	hoots	hoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 twoo	punct
9	twit	twit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 twoo	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 twit	punct
11	twoo	twoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoots	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 twoo	punct
13	all	all	ADV	_	15 itself	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 itself	case
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 hoots	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 branch	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 branch	det
18	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hoots	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hoots	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoot	present	a owl	twit twoo		a cartoon		by owl; on a branch	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twoo=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 is more true in a real wood?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 true	amod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 wood	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is usually two owls, one calling and one answering

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	5 owls	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 owls	cop
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 owls	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 owls	nummod
5	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 calling	punct
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 calling	nummod
8	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 owls	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 owls	conj
11	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	two owls and one calling				usually property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	gerund							vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only baby owls make that call when they are hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 owls	advmod
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owls	compound
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 hungry	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hungry	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hungry	cop
10	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 call	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	baby owls						tree rules
2	call	infinitive	that						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	owls = owl					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

Owls hoot only in the daytime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hoot	nsubj
2	hoot	hoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 hoot	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 daytime	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daytime	det
6	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hoot	present	Owls			the daytime			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daytime=Location

Option 4

Owls never make any sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	Owls	any sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

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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