Test 5 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

«what if I ran off a cliff and didn't look down, would I hover» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: run off, not look down, hover, be · To what, where: cliff

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	2 what	punct
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 ran	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cliff	det
8	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 look	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 look	advmod
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 look	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hover	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 hover	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 hover	nsubj
17	hover	hover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 look	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 hover	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hover	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run off in a quote	past	I	a cliff		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory
2	not look down in a quote	past · do-support	I not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	hover in a quote	would	I			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you kept moving your legs and running in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 kept	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 moving	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 running	cc
10	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 moving	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	keep	past	you			tree rules
2	move	gerund	you not said here	your legs		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
3	run	gerund	you not said here		the air	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory

Option 2

Yes, for a second or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 second	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 second	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 second	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 second	det
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 two	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 second	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, you would fall at once; never try it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fall	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 try	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 try	advmod
10	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fall	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 try	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	you						vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	not try	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

Only if you held an umbrella

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 held	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 held	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 umbrella	det
6	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	you	a umbrella					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent umbrella=Theme

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