Test 1 · ★ · How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and ow…
Count them: a pellet holds the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews. How many animals did the owl eat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pellet, many animals, owl · What happens: count, hold, do, eat · To what, where: them, skulls
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 302 «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» 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: a pellet holds the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews.
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 | _ | 6 holds | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pellet | det |
| 5 | pellet | pellet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 skulls | det |
| 8 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 holds | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 voles | case |
| 10 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 voles | nummod |
| 11 | voles | vole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 skulls | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrews | cc |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 shrews | nummod |
| 14 | shrews | shrew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 voles | conj |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | hold | present | a pellet | the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=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: How many animals did the owl eat?
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 | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many animals | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | the owl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
10
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
6
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
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.
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