Test 11 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

«rabbit thumped the floor and the others legged it, why» What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rabbit, others · What happens: thump, leg, happen · To what, where: floor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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 thumped	punct
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thumped	nsubj
3	thumped	thump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thumped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 legged	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 others	det
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 legged	nsubj
9	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thumped	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 legged	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 legged	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 thumped	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happened	nsubj
15	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thumped	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	thump in a quote	past	rabbit	the floor	tree rules
2	leg in a quote	past	the others	floor	tree rules
3	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It was a danger warning, and they ran to safety

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	5 warning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 warning	det
4	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warning	compound
5	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 warning	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 safety	case
11	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a danger warning					tree rules
2	run	past	they	a danger warning not said here		safety			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent warning=Theme to safety=Trajectory

Option 2

It was angry at the floor

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 angry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			the floor		angry property	tree rules

Option 3

It was playing a drum game with the others

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	3 playing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 playing	aux
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	compound
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	It	a drum game				with the others	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with other=Co-Agent

Option 4

It wanted food

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	It	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

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