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Test 7 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream. What do real roadrunners do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon roadrunner, real roadrunners · What happens: sip, be, do · To what, where: water, stream

This is test 7 · ★ 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: A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roadrunner	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roadrunner	compound
3	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sips	nsubj
4	sips	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sips	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 stream	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stream	det
8	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sips	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sips	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sip	present	a cartoon roadrunner	water		a stream			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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 do real roadrunners do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roadrunners	amod
4	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules
2	do	present	real roadrunners						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Drink a whole bucketful of water every hour in the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bucketful	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bucketful	amod
4	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucketful	nmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	a whole bucketful of water		the heat	hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucketful=Patient

Option 2

Drink only rain from cactus flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 rain	advmod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Drink	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
5	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flowers	compound
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Drink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	imperative	you not said here	rain		cactus flowers			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient

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

Get most water from their food and rarely drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drink	cc
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	9 drink	advmod
9	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	most water		their food			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source
2	drink	present	you not said here					rarely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Cannot swallow water at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swallow	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 swallow	advmod
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swallow	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 swallow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swallow	can		water		all			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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