Test 2 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

Which is true about owls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	about	about	ADP	_	5 owls	case
5	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

They can turn their heads all the way round in a full circle, and more

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	parataxis
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 circle	case
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	3 turn	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 more	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 more	cc
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	They	their heads		a full circle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent head=Theme more=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They turn their heads about three quarters of the way round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obj
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 three	advmod
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 quarters	nummod
7	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 way	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quarters	nmod
11	round	round	ADV	_	10 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They	their heads				three quarters of the way obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

They cannot turn their heads at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heads	nmod:poss
6	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 turn	obl

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

Option 4

They move their eyes instead of their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 move	nsubj
2	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 heads	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	They	their eyes				instead eyes's heads	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

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