Test 18 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

my cousin says owls can see in total pitch dark like night vision goggles

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cousin, owls · What happens: say, see · To what, where: total pitch dark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» of the everyday 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 dark	case
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dark	amod
9	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dark	compound
10	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 goggles	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 vision	compound
13	vision	vision	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goggles	compound
14	goggles	goggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	can	owls			total pitch dark		like vision goggles	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

He is right, owls see in total darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct
5	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 darkness	case
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 darkness	amod
9	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	see	present	owls			total darkness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He is right, and so can cats and dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 can	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 can	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 can	advmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 right	aux
8	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 can	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dogs	cc
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cats	conj

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

Option 3

He is right, but only with one eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eye	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 eye	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 eye	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 eye	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eye	nummod
9	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					with one eye; right property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That is an exaggeration; owls see well in dim light but no eye can see in total darkness

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 exaggeration	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exaggeration	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 exaggeration	det
4	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
6	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 exaggeration	parataxis
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 see	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 light	case
10	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 light	amod
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 eye	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 eye	det
14	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 light	conj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 darkness	case
18	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 darkness	amod
19	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a exaggeration			tree rules
2	see	present	owls		dim light but no eye	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	can	a exaggeration		total darkness		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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