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Test 7 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

«lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?» What is likely?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: 40 kilos

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kilos	nummod
6	kilos	kilo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 zebra	case
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kilos	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
12	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
13	again	again	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	lion	40 kilos of zebra					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilo=Patient
2	eat in a quote	future	lion				again; tomorrow		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 is likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It will be starving in an hour

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 starving	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 starving	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 starving	aux
4	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 starving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	future · progressive	It				hour		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It may go days without eating again

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 go	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	obl:unmarked
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 go	advcl
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	may	It				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund					again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Lions eat ten times a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obl:unmarked
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 times	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Lions				time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It will eat another 40 kilos at night

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 eat	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 kilos	det
5	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kilos	nummod
6	kilos	kilo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	future	It	another 40 kilos			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilo=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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