Test 1 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Timon · What happens: be

This is test 1 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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	_	5 own	punct
2	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 own	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 own	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 own	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 garden	nmod:poss
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 own	obl
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 own	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Timon	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Timon	case
12	Timon	Timon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 own	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 Timon	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Timon	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 own	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Timon					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

True, meerkats prefer to live alone, just like Timon in the film

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meerkats	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prefer	nsubj
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 prefer	xcomp
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 live	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Timon	punct
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 Timon	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 Timon	case
11	Timon	Timon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 prefer	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 film	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 film	det
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prefer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prefer	present	True meerkats			the film		like Timon	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	live not said to happen	to-infinitive	True meerkats not said here					alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

True, they live in gardens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 gardens	case
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they			gardens			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 3

True, they live with warthogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 live	reparandum
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 warthogs	case
6	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they					with warthogs	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with warthog=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wild meerkats almost never live alone; they live in mobs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 meerkats	amod
2	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 never	advmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 live	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 mobs	case
11	mobs	mob	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	present	Wild meerkats					alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	meerkats = meerkat			mobs			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mob=Location

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