Test 5 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

«Simba should roar at 6 months like in the film» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Simba · What happens: roar, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 roar	punct
2	Simba	Simba	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 roar	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	aux
4	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 months	case
6	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 months	nummod
7	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roar	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 film	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 film	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 film	det
11	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 months	nmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 roar	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 roar	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roar	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar in a quote	should	Simba				month		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	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 · ✓ the right answer

A cub mews and grunts and starts real roaring at about one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cub	det
2	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mews	nsubj
3	mews	mew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grunts	cc
5	grunts	grunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mews	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 starts	cc
7	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mews	conj
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roaring	amod
9	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 starts	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 year	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 year	nummod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roaring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	mew	present	a cub		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grunt	present	a cub not said here		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	start	present	a cub not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	roar	gerund		year	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only lionesses roar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 lionesses	advmod
2	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roar	nsubj
3	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	lionesses						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Lions never roar at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roar	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 roar	advmod
3	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 roar	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not roar	present	Lions			all			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 4

Cubs roar loudly from the very day they are born, just like their dads

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roar	nsubj
2	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 roar	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 day	advmod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roar	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 born	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 born	aux:pass
10	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 day	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dads	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	15 dads	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 dads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 dads	nmod:poss
15	dads	dad	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	Cubs				day	loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	present · passive	the day not said here	Cubs = cub					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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