Test 1 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

«coyotes can never catch roadrunners, cartoon proves it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: coyotes, catch cartoon · What happens: not catch, prove, be · To what, where: roadrunners, it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 122 «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
2	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 catch	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 catch	advmod
5	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cartoon	compound
6	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 catch	punct
8	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 proves	nsubj
9	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 proves	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 proves	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 proves	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not catch in a quote	can	coyotes	roadrunners		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme
2	prove in a quote	present	catch cartoon	it		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
3	is	present			right 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

True, roadrunners fly away every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roadrunners	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	present	True roadrunners				time	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coyotes are faster and sometimes catch them, though roadrunners often dodge into bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 faster	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faster	cop
3	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 catch	cc
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 catch	advmod
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faster	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dodge	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 dodge	mark
10	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dodge	nsubj
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 dodge	advmod
12	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faster	conj
13	into	into	ADP	_	14 bushes	case
14	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dodge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Coyotes			fast property	tree rules
2	catch	present	Coyotes not said here	Coyotes = coyote		sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	dodge	present	roadrunners		bushes	often property	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

True, roadrunners are the fastest animals on Earth, faster than any cheetah or car

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 roadrunners	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 animals	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 faster	punct
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 animals	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 cheetah	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 cheetah	det
14	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 faster	obl
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 car	cc
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheetah	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	True roadrunners	the fastest animals		Earth		fast property	tree rules

Option 4

True, coyotes do not eat birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coyotes	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	True coyotes	birds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient

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