Test 8 · Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas

«Tai Lung roars like a lion in the film so snow leopards roar» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Tai Lung, snow leopards · What happens: roar, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 of lesson 135 «Kung Fu Panda: real giant pandas and red pandas» 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 roars	punct
2	Tai	Tai	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lung	compound
3	Lung	Lung	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 roars	nsubj
4	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roars	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 film	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	nmod
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 roar	advmod
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leopards	compound
13	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 roar	nsubj
14	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roars	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 roar	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 roar	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 roars	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	roar in a quote	present	Tai Lung	like a lion in the film	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	roar in a quote	present	snow leopards		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
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

No, they bark like dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 bark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bark	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bark	nsubj
4	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 dogs	case
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bark	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Snow leopards cannot roar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leopards	compound
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 roar	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 roar	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 roar	advmod
5	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not roar	can	Snow leopards						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3

Yes, but only in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 snow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 snow	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 snow	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 snow	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, they roar louder than lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 roar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 roar	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roar	nsubj
4	roar	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 roar	ccomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 lions	case
7	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 louder	obl

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

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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