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Test 10 · ★★★ · Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★

Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owls can look straight behind them!" How many of the three are true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid, bats, owls, many · What happens: bury, be, look · To what, where: heads

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Olympiad: which claim is true? ★★★» of the myths 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: Kid at the zoo: "Ostriches bury their heads, bats are blind, and owls can look straight behind them!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bury	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 zoo	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 zoo	det
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kid	nmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct
7	Ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bury	nsubj
8	bury	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bury	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blind	punct
12	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blind	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 blind	cop
14	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bury	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 look	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 look	cc
17	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 look	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 look	aux
19	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bury	conj
20	straight	straight	ADV	_	22 them	advmod
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 look	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 bury	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury in a quote	present	Kid at the zoo	Ostriches's heads					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	bats					blind property	tree rules
3	look in a quote	can	owls					behind Ostriches = ostrich	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=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: How many of the three are true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 true	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 three	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 three	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 true	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 true	cop
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Two of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Two	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One: owls can look behind them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
3	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 look	aux
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 One	parataxis
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	can	owls					behind them = they	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=Theme

Option 3

None of them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 None	nmod

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

Option 4

All three of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 three	nmod

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

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.

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