Test 5 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

Wicked, when does the owl actually see properly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl · What happens: see

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» of the books 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 see	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 see	advmod
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 owl	det
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wicked	parataxis
9	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 see	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · do-support	the owl					actually, properly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 · ← Mova's choice

When the sun is high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 high	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sun	det
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 high	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 high	cop
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Only in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 dark	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dark	det
4	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

When the moon shines on her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 shines	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shines	nsubj
4	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shines	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the moon	her = she					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent her=Theme

Option 4

Only when the moon is full, she reckons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 full	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 full	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reckons	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reckons	nsubj
9	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the moon					full property	tree rules
2	reckon	present	she						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1873-pg7277-part10/t5/