Test 9 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs
A cartoon shows meerkats in an East African rainforest singing in Swahili. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, East African rainforest · What happens: show, sing, be · To what, where: meerkats, Swahili
This is test 9 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows meerkats in an East African rainforest singing in Swahili.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rainforest | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rainforest | det |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rainforest | compound |
| 8 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rainforest | amod |
| 9 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obl |
| 10 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rainforest | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Swahili | case |
| 12 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 singing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | meerkats | in a East African rainforest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent meerkat=Patient in rainforest=Topic | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | a East African rainforest not said here | Swahili | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swahili=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: What is real?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 real | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 real | cop |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | real property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Meerkats live only in Asia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Asia | case |
| 5 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Meerkats | Asia | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in asia=Location |
Option 2
Meerkats speak Swahili
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 speak | nsubj |
| 2 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Swahili | Swahili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Meerkats | Swahili | tree rules |
Option 3
Meerkats live in every rainforest in Africa and sing in the trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 rainforest | case |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 rainforest | det |
| 5 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Africa | case |
| 7 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sing | cc |
| 9 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Meerkats | every rainforest | in Africa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rainforest=Location | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | Meerkats not said here | the trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Swahili is spoken in East Africa, but meerkats live in southern Africa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoken | aux:pass |
| 3 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Africa | case |
| 5 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Africa | compound |
| 6 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spoken | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 live | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 live | cc |
| 9 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoken | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Africa | case |
| 12 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Africa | amod |
| 13 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present · passive | Swahili | East Africa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | meerkats | southern Africa | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in africa=Location |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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