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Test 9 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls

A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove. Why is the glove thick leather?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hawk, glove · What happens: land, be · To what, where: glove

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and 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: A falconer's Harris's hawk lands on her glove.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 falconer	det
2	falconer	falconer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hawk	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 falconer	case
4	Harris	Harris	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hawk	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Harris	case
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lands	nsubj
7	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 glove	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 glove	nmod:poss
10	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lands	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	a falconer's hawk			hawk's glove			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on glove=Destination

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: Why is the glove thick leather?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 glove	det
4	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leather	amod
6	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glove	conj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the glove and thick leather					why property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To keep the hawk warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the hawk				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme

Option 2

To make the hawk look bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hawk	det
4	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the hawk					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the hawk not said here					big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Because hawks like the smell of leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	2 hawks	case
2	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 smell	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 smell	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hawks	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 leather	case
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smell	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell		leather						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To protect her hand from the hawk's sharp talons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 protect	mark
2	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 protect	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	10 talons	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hawk	det
7	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 talons	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hawk	case
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 talons	amod
10	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 protect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	to-infinitive		her hand				from the hawk's sharp talons	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Beneficiary from talon=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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