Test 5 · ★ · How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and ow…

«bruv, owls can spin their heads right round like in the cartoon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bruv owls · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 spin	punct
2	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 owls	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bruv	punct
4	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spin	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spin	aux
6	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spin	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	10 round	advmod
10	round	round	ADV	_	6 spin	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 cartoon	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cartoon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cartoon	det
14	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 spin	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spin	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 spin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin in a quote	can	bruv owls	owls's heads				like the cartoon; round property	tree rules
2	is	present						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

Yes, round and round many times without stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 round	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	round	round	ADV	_	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 round	cc
5	round	round	ADV	_	3 round	conj
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 times	amod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 round	obl:unmarked
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 stopping	mark
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 round	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	gerund							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, but only once a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 once	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 once	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	obl:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, owls cannot move their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	can	owls	owls's heads					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, about three quarters of a circle at most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 quarters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quarters	punct
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarters	nummod
5	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 circle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 circle	det
8	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quarters	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 most	case
10	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 circle	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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