Test 1 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

«lions are lazy, the girls do all the work» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lions, girls · What happens: be, do · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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	_	4 lazy	punct
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lazy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	parataxis
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 work	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 work	det
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lazy	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	lions		lazy property	tree rules
2	do in a quote	present	the girls	all work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	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

Wrong, the cubs do all the hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cubs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cubs	det
4	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hunting	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hunting	det
8	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Wrong cubs	all hunting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Lionesses do most hunting, but males hunt too and guard the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 hunting	advmod
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hunt	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 hunt	cc
7	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunt	nsubj
8	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	parataxis
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 hunt	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 guard	cc
11	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hunt	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	Lionesses	hunting	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality
2	hunt	present	males		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	guard	infinitive	males not said here	the land	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary

Option 3

Right, males only sleep and eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 males	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sleep	advmod
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	males						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	males not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Right, males never do anything except sleep under trees all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 males	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 do	obj
7	except	except	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	nmod
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 trees	case
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	males	anything		trees	day	except sleep; long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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