Test 10 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

how does an owl get a mouse it cant even see

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: owl · What happens: get, see · To what, where: mouse

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	obj
9	cant	cant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	a owl	a mouse				cant property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Beneficiary it=Theme
2	see	infinitive	a owl not said here						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

It sees in total darkness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sees	nsubj
2	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 darkness	case
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 darkness	amod
5	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sees	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	It			total darkness			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It feels the mouse's heat with the tip of its beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 mouse	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tip	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tip	det
9	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feels	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 beak	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 beak	nmod:poss
12	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	It	the mouse's heat				with the tip of tip's beak	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	heat		the mouse						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It hears so well it can catch the mouse by sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hears	nsubj
2	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 catch	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 catch	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 catch	aux
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hears	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 sound	case
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	It						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	catch	can	it	the mouse				by sound; well property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

Option 4

It smells the mouse from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smells	nsubj
2	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smells	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 far	case
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 smells	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	present	It	the mouse				far property	vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mouse=Stimulus

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