Test 7 · ★ · The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mand…

«mandrill showed its teeth at me in the zoo, it hates me» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mandrill, best answer · What happens: show, hate, be · To what, where: teeth, me

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	3 showed	punct
2	mandrill	mandrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showed	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 showed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 zoo	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 zoo	det
10	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hates	nsubj
13	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 hates	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 hates	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 hates	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show in a quote	past	mandrill	mandrill's teeth	at me; in the zoo	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient in zoo=Topic
2	hate in a quote	present	mandrill	me		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
3	is a	present	the best answer			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 · ✓ the right answer

A wide yawn with teeth is a warning to keep back, not hate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 yawn	det
2	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 yawn	amod
3	yawn	yawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warning	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 teeth	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 yawn	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 warning	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 warning	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 warning	acl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 keep	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hate	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hate	advmod
14	hate	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 keep	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a wide yawn with teeth	a warning	tree rules
2	keep back	to-infinitive			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not hate	infinitive			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It was showing its teeth so that a keeper would clean them

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 showing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teeth	nmod:poss
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obj
6	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 clean	mark
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 so	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 keeper	det
9	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 clean	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 clean	aux
11	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 showing	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past · progressive	It	its teeth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
2	clean	would	a keeper	teeth = tooth					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

It was smiling at you because it likes you a lot

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 smiling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smiling	aux
3	smiling	smile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 smiling	obl
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 likes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 likes	nsubj
8	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smiling	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 likes	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 likes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past · progressive	It					at you	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	like	present	it	you					tree rules

Option 4

It was hungry for you

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					for you; hungry property	tree rules

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