Test 4 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

Your friend says an owl can spin its head right round like in a cartoon. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, owl · What happens: say, spin, be · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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: Your friend says an owl can spin its head right round like in a cartoon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 owl	det
5	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 spin	aux
7	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
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 spin	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	11 round	advmod
11	round	round	ADV	_	7 spin	advmod
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 cartoon	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cartoon	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cartoon	det
15	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spin	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spin	can	a owl	owl's head				like a cartoon; round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It turns about three quarters of the way, not a full circle

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 quarters	nummod
5	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quarters	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 circle	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 circle	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 circle	det
12	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 circle	amod
13	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn about	present	It	three quarters of the way					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme quarter=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, owls cannot turn their heads at all, only their eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	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 turn	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 turn	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyes	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	14 eyes	advmod
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	conj

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

Option 3

Yes, it spins round and round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 spins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spins	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spins	nsubj
4	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 spins	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 round	cc
7	round	round	ADV	_	5 round	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	it					round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It turns only a little, like a person

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 person	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 person	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	a little				like a person	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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