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Test 4 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: friend, roadrunners · What happens: say, not fly, be · To what, where: all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fly	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not fly	can	roadrunners			all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They can fly, but only short and clumsily

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 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 short	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 short	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 clumsily	cc
9	clumsily	clumsily	ADV	_	7 short	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	They						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Wrong, they fly long distances every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fly	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	nsubj
4	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distances	amod
6	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	obj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	they	long distances			day		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme

Option 3

Right, they are a kind of ostrich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 ostrich	case
8	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	a kind				of ostrich	tree rules

Option 4

Right, they have no wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 wings	det
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	they	no wings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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