Test 11 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«meerkat just ate a scorpion and didn't die, how» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: meerkat · What happens: eat, not die, be · To what, where: scorpion

This is test 11 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	_	4 ate	punct
2	meerkat	meerkat	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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scorpion	det
6	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 die	advmod
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ate	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 »	punct
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 »	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 ate	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	4 ate	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	meerkat	a scorpion		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Patient
2	not die in a quote	past · do-support	meerkat not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
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 · ✓ the right answer

It bites off or avoids the stinger and can survive some venom

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	2 bites	nsubj
2	bites	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 bites	compound:prt
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 avoids	cc
5	avoids	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 bites	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stinger	det
7	stinger	stinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 avoids	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 survive	cc
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 survive	aux
10	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bites	conj
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 venom	det
12	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bite off	present	It		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	avoid	present		the stinger	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent stinger=Location
3	survive	can		some venom	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme venom=Circumstance

Option 2

Meerkats have metal teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	compound
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Meerkats	metal teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 3

Scorpions are not real animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 animals	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 animals	advmod
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Scorpions	real animals					tree rules

Option 4

The scorpion was made of plastic, as the real ones would kill it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scorpion	det
2	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 plastic	case
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kill	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 kill	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ones	det
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ones	amod
11	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kill	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 kill	aux
13	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the scorpion				of plastic	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	kill	would	the real ones	scorpion					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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