Test 4 · ★ · How animals hunt

Why would having one ear higher than the other help an owl find a squeaking mouse?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: have, find · To what, where: squeaking mouse

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 52 «How animals hunt» 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	3 having	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 having	aux
3	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 ear	nummod
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 higher	obl:unmarked
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 having	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 help	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 help	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 help	amod
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 higher	obl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 owl	det
12	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	nsubj
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
15	squeaking	squeaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mouse	compound
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 having	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	find	infinitive	a owl	a squeaking mouse					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic

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

It doesn't help, it's just a funny shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 help	advmod
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shape	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shape	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shape	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 shape	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shape	det
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shape	amod
11	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	present · do-support	It						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a funny shape					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sound reaches each ear a little differently, so it can tell up from down

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaches	nsubj
3	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ear	det
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reaches	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reaches	obl:unmarked
8	differently	differently	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reaches	conj
14	up	up	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 down	case
16	down	down	ADV	_	13 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	the sound	each ear				a little obl:unmarked	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	tell up speech: assert	can	sound						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The high ear is for hunting by day and the low one is for hunting by night

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ear	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ear	amod
3	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hunting	cop
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 hunting	case
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hunting	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hunting	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 hunting	cop
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 hunting	case
15	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the high ear				day; night	for hunting and hunting	tree rules
2	is	present	the low one					for hunting	tree rules

Option 4

It hears two mice at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 mice	nummod
4	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hears	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 hears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It	two mice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

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