Test 7 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

«warthog's fat and slow, I can outrun it easy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: outrun, be · To what, where: fat

This is test 7 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 fat	punct
2	warthog	warthog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 warthog	case
4	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slow	cc
6	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 outrun	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 outrun	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 outrun	aux
10	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fat	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 outrun	obj
12	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 outrun	xcomp
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 easy	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 easy	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outrun in a quote	can	I	fat				easy 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 · ← Mova's choice

Right, they only crawl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 crawl	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crawl	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 crawl	advmod
5	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	present	they						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Right, they cannot run at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 run	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 run	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 run	advmod
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run	can	they			all			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warthogs can run at about 50 km per hour, faster than you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warthogs	warthog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 km	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 50	advmod
6	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 km	nummod
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 hour	case
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 km	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 faster	punct
11	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
12	than	than	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	can	Warthogs			50 km per hour			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory

Option 4

Right, they waddle slowly like ducks, so anyone can outrun them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 waddle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waddle	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waddle	nsubj
4	waddle	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 waddle	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 ducks	case
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waddle	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 outrun	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 outrun	advmod
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 outrun	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 outrun	aux
12	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waddle	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 outrun	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waddle	present	they					like ducks; slowly property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	outrun	can	anyone	ducks = duck					tree rules

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