Test 10 · ★ · How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and ow…

Why might an owl bob and sway its head when it looks at you?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl bob, bob · What happens: sway, look · To what, where: head

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sway	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sway	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bob	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bob	compound
5	bob	bob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sway	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sway	cc
7	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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	7 sway	obj
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 looks	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 looks	nsubj
12	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sway	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 looks	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sway	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sway	might	a owl bob	bob's head					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme
2	look	present	bob					at you	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=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.

The options

Option 1

Because it is dancing to some music only it can hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 dancing	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dancing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dancing	aux
4	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 music	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 music	det
7	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dancing	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 hear	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dancing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present · progressive	it			some music			vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory
2	hear	can	music						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Because its neck is aching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 aching	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aching	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 aching	aux
5	aching	ache	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ache	present · progressive	its neck						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To judge how far away you are from different views

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 judge	mark
2	judge	judge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 judge	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 views	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 views	cop
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 views	case
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 views	amod
10	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 judge	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	to-infinitive						away property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you			different views			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Because its eyes roll around inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 roll	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roll	nsubj
4	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 roll	advmod
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	4 roll	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll around	present	its eyes					around, inside property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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