Test 9 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

«lion asleep up a tree in that film, is it fake» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion · What happens: be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	13 fake	punct
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fake	nsubj
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lion	amod
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asleep	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 film	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 film	det
9	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lion	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fake	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fake	nsubj
13	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 fake	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fake	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 fake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	lion					fake property	tree rules
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

Fake, lions cannot climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lions	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fake	punct
3	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 climb	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 climb	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 climb	advmod
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not climb	can	Fake lions						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Real, all lions sleep in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lions	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Real	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lions	det
4	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	all Real lions			trees			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location

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

It may be real; lions in parts of Uganda and Tanzania often climb trees

The tree, 14 words

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 real	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 real	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 lions	punct
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 climb	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 parts	case
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lions	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Uganda	case
10	Uganda	Uganda	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 parts	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Tanzania	cc
12	Tanzania	Tanzania	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Uganda	conj
13	often	often	ADV	_	14 climb	advmod
14	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	It					real property	tree rules
2	climb	present	lions in parts of Uganda and Tanzania	trees				often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 4

Fake, only leopards go up trees, as lions are far too big and heavy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leopards	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fake	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 leopards	advmod
4	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 big	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 big	mark
10	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 big	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 big	cop
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 big	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 big	advmod
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heavy	cc
16	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 big	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	present	Fake leopards	trees		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	present	lions		big, far property	tree rules
3	be		lions not said here			tree rules

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