Test 12 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

ben reckons owls can spin their head right round. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ben, owls · What happens: reckon, spin · To what, where: head

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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	ben	ben	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spin	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spin	aux
5	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	ccomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spin	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 round	advmod
9	round	round	ADV	_	5 spin	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
11	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reckons	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	ben						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	spin	can	owls	owls's head				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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, they can turn it all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 turn	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	they	it				all way obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Yes, they turn it twice round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
4	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turn	advmod
7	round	round	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, they cannot turn their head at all

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	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 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 turn	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, only about three quarters of the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 quarters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 quarters	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 quarters	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 quarters	nummod
6	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quarters	nmod

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

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