Test 9 · Owls of the world: barn owls, eagle owls, elf owls and bur…
«lol owls live everywhere, even with the penguins in Antarctica» Is that right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: owls, that · What happens: live, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 2 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 live | discourse |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | parataxis |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 live | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 penguins | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 penguins | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 penguins | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 penguins | det |
| 10 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Antarctica | case |
| 12 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 penguins | obl |
| 13 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 14 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 right | cop |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 right | nsubj |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | owls | with the penguins; everywhere property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with penguin=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that | right property | tree rules |
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.
The options
Option 1
No, owls live only in Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 Europe | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Europe | case |
| 7 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | owls | Europe | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in europe=Location |
Option 2
Yes, snowy owls live there with the penguins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 live | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 owls | amod |
| 4 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 live | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 penguins | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 penguins | det |
| 9 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | snowy owls | there | with the penguins | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with penguin=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, owls live on every continent except Antarctica
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 owls | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 continent | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 continent | det |
| 7 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 9 Antarctica | case |
| 9 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 continent | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | owls | every continent except Antarctica | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location |
Option 4
Yes, all owls go there in winter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 go | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 owls | det |
| 4 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 winter | case |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | all owls | there | winter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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