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Test 9 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

A roadrunner meets a young rattlesnake. What might really happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: roadrunner · What happens: meet, happen · To what, where: young rattlesnake

This is test 9 · ★ 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 roadrunner meets a young rattlesnake.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 roadrunner	det
2	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	nsubj
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rattlesnake	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rattlesnake	amod
6	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	a roadrunner	a young rattlesnake					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattlesnake=Co-Agent

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 might really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The snake always eats the roadrunner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 eats	advmod
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roadrunner	det
6	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the snake	the roadrunner				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Patient

Option 2

They ignore each other completely and walk on past

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	2 ignore	nsubj
2	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 ignore	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	2 ignore	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ignore	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 past	case
9	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	They	each				completely property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	walk	infinitive	They not said here			past			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on past=Trajectory

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

The roadrunner may kill it by whacking its head against a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roadrunner	det
2	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 whacking	mark
7	whacking	whack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kill	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whacking	obj
10	against	against	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whacking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	may	the roadrunner	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	whack	gerund	the roadrunner not said here	roadrunner's head				against a rock	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=Patient

Option 4

The roadrunner always runs away, because all big snakes eat birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roadrunner	det
2	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 runs	advmod
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 runs	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 eat	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 eat	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 snakes	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snakes	amod
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	nsubj
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 runs	conj
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	present	the roadrunner					always, away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	present	all big snakes	birds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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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