Test 4 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pumbaa, warthogs · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: bugs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	_	3 eats	punct
2	Pumbaa	Pumbaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 eats	nsubj
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eats	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 eat	mark
6	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	nsubj
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	advcl
8	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 duh	punct
10	duh	duh	INTJ	_	7 eat	discourse
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eats	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	Pumbaa	bugs		tree rules
2	eat in a quote	present	warthogs	bugs		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient
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

Real warthogs mostly graze grass and dig roots; bugs only now and then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 warthogs	amod
2	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 graze	nsubj
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 graze	advmod
4	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 graze	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dig	cc
7	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 graze	conj
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dig	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 bugs	punct
10	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 graze	obl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 now	advmod
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 graze	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 then	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 now	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	present	Real warthogs	grass			now	bugs obl; mostly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer
2	dig	present	Real warthogs not said here	roots					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme

Option 2

Wrong, warthogs eat only meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warthogs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 meat	advmod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

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

Option 3

Right, they slurp ants all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 slurp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slurp	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slurp	nsubj
4	slurp	slurp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slurp	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slurp	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slurp	present	they	ants			day		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient

Option 4

Right, they eat only bugs and grubs, just like Pumbaa in the film

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 bugs	advmod
6	bugs	bug	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grubs	cc
8	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bugs	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Pumbaa	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	12 Pumbaa	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 Pumbaa	case
12	Pumbaa	Pumbaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 film	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 film	det
15	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	bugs and grubs		the film		like Pumbaa	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient

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