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Test 8 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

In a game, a snow leopard roars to scare off the player. What would a real one do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: snow leopard · What happens: roar, scare off · To what, where: game, player

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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: In a game, a snow leopard roars to scare off the player.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roars	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 game	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leopard	det
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leopard	compound
7	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roars	nsubj
8	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 scare	mark
10	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 roars	xcomp
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 scare	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 player	det
13	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scare	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 roars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	a snow leopard			a game			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scare off	to-infinitive	a snow leopard not said here	the player					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus player=Experiencer

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 would a real one do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 do	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 do	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	compound
6	do	do	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

It barks like a dog

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 barks	nsubj
2	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	It					like a dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It sings like a bird

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 sings	nsubj
2	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	It					like a bird	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Exactly the same, they roar very loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 roar	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 roar	nsubj
6	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 same	parataxis
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 loudly	advmod
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 roar	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	they					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It cannot roar; it makes a puffing sound

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	4 roar	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 roar	advmod
4	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	parataxis
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sound	det
9	puffing	puffing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not roar	can	It						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	it	a puffing sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product

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