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How many animals did the owl eat? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, pellet, many animals, owl · **What happens:** count, hold, do, eat · **To what, where:** them, skulls This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 302 «How owls work: silent wings, turning heads, pellets and owl myths» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count them: a pellet holds the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:1 # text = Count them: a pellet holds the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pellet pellet NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 skulls skull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 voles vole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 shrews shrew NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **hold** | present | a pellet | the skulls of 2 voles and 3 shrews | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=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 animals did the owl eat? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:2 # text = How many animals did the owl eat? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | many animals | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | the owl | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 3 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:o1:1 # text = 3 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 10 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:o2:1 # text = 10 1 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 5 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:o3:1 # text = 5 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 6 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths:t1:o4:1 # text = 6 1 6 6 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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