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Test 10 · ★★ · The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat,…

You hear «ke-wick» and then «hoo-hoo-hoo» from the trees one night. What is going on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: hear, go on · To what, where: ke wick, trees

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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: You hear «ke-wick» and then «hoo-hoo-hoo» from the trees one night.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 wick	punct
4	ke	ke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wick	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ke	punct
6	wick	wick	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 wick	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hoo	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 hoo	advmod
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 hoo	punct
11	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoo	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 hoo	punct
13	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hoo	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 hoo	punct
15	hoo	hoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	conj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 hoo	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 night	nummod
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl:unmarked
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	ke wick		the trees	night		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wick=Topic from tree=Source

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: What is going on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A fox pretending to be an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fox	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	7 owl	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 owl	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	a fox not said here						tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	a fox not said here	a owl					tree rules

Option 2

One owl calling twice, high then low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 owl	nummod
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 owl	acl
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 calling	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 high	punct
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 owl	amod
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 low	advmod
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 high	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	One owl not said here					twice property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two tawny owls calling to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 owls	nummod
2	tawny	tawny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owls	amod
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	calling	call	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 owls	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 calling	obl
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	Two tawny owls not said here		each				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

Option 4

A nightjar copying an owl it has heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nightjar	det
2	nightjar	nightjar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 nightjar	acl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 owl	det
5	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 copying	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 copying	obj
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	gerund	a nightjar not said here	a owl					tree rules
2	hear	present · perfect · passive		a nightjar					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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