Test 10 · ★ · The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mand…

«hornbill waiting outside the mongoose hole in the morning, weird» Why might it wait?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hornbill · What happens: wait · To what, where: mongoose hole

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 126 «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» 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	_	2 hornbill	punct
2	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 weird	nsubj
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hornbill	acl
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	7 hole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hole	det
6	mongoose	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	compound
7	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waiting	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 morning	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hole	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
12	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wait	advmod
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 wait	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wait	nsubj
17	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 weird	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 weird	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait in a quote	gerund	hornbill not said here			the mongoose hole in the morning			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside hole=Location
2	wait	might	hornbill						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It wants to catch and eat the young mongooses

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 catch	mark
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catch	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mongooses	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mongooses	amod
9	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	want	present	It		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	infinitive		the young mongooses	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mongoose=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It hunts insects the mongooses stir up when they wake

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 hunts	nsubj
2	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunts	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mongooses	det
5	mongooses	mongoose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stir	nsubj
6	stir	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hunts	parataxis
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 stir	compound:prt
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 wake	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wake	nsubj
10	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stir	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hunt	present	It	insects	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
2	stir up	present	the mongooses		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
3	wake	present	mongooses = mongoose		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It is guarding its own eggs

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	3 guarding	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 guarding	aux
3	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eggs	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eggs	amod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	present · progressive	It	its own eggs					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Beneficiary

Option 4

It is lost

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	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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