Test 8 · ★ · The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mand…

«hyena just crunched a whole bone lol is it broken» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hyena · What happens: crunch, break, be · To what, where: whole bone, hyena

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 crunched	punct
2	hyena	hyena	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crunched	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 crunched	advmod
4	crunched	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bone	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bone	amod
7	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crunched	obj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 crunched	discourse
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 broken	aux:pass
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 broken	nsubj:pass
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 broken	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 broken	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	crunch in a quote	past	hyena	a whole bone		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	break in a quote	present · passive		hyena		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Hyenas cannot eat bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	Hyenas	bones					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2

It will be very sick afterwards, as bones are poison to hyenas

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	5 sick	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sick	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sick	advmod
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	5 sick	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poison	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 poison	case
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poison	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 poison	cop
11	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sick	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 hyenas	case
13	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 poison	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	It					afterwards, sick property	tree rules
2	is	present	bones					as poison; to hyenas	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, its jaw must be broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 broken	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 jaw	nmod:poss
4	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 broken	nsubj:pass
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 broken	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 broken	aux:pass
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	must · passive		its jaw					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its strong bite can crush and digest bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bite	nmod:poss
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bite	amod
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crush	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 crush	aux
5	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 digest	cc
7	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 crush	conj
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	crush	can	Its strong bite		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	digest	infinitive	Its strong bite not said here	bones	tree rules
3	bite		Its = it		nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

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