Test 8 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

«2 coyotes yipping out there, sounds like 20, run for it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: 2 coyotes · What happens: yip, sound, run, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 coyotes	punct
2	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 coyotes	nummod
3	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sounds	nsubj
4	yipping	yip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 coyotes	acl
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 yipping	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 20	case
10	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 sounds	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
12	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sounds	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 run	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 run	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 run	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	yip in a quote	gerund	2 coyotes not said here	there		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound in a quote	present	2 coyotes		like 20	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	run in a quote	infinitive	2 coyotes not said here		for it	tree rules
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

It must be wolves, coyotes are silent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wolves	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wolves	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 wolves	cop
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 silent	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 coyotes	punct
6	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wolves	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 silent	cop
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	wolves and coyotes					tree rules
2	is	present	wolves and coyotes					silent property	tree rules

Option 2

Coyotes always call in groups of ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 call	advmod
3	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 groups	case
5	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 call	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 ten	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 groups	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Coyotes			groups of ten		always property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

There must really be twenty of them out there in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 there	expl
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 there	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 twenty	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 twenty	cop
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 there	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 twenty	nmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		twenty				of them = they	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Two coyotes' voices overlap and bounce, so they can sound like a pack

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 coyotes	nummod
2	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 voices	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 coyotes	case
4	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 overlap	nsubj
5	overlap	overlap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bounce	cc
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 overlap	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sound	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 sound	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sound	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sound	aux
12	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 overlap	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 pack	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pack	det
15	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	overlap	present	Two coyotes's voices		vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	bounce	present	Two coyotes's voices not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sound	can	voices = voice	like a pack	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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