Test 8 · ★★ · Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, g…

«gazelle's jumping up and down in front of the cheetah, it's mental» What may it be doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, cheetah · What happens: jump up, be, do · To what, where: front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 139 «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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 jumping	punct
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumping	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 gazelle	case
4	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 mental	csubj
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 jumping	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 down	cc
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 up	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jumping	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cheetah	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cheetah	det
12	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 front	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jumping	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mental	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mental	cop
16	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 mental	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 doing	obj
19	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 doing	aux
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 mental	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump up in a quote	gerund		front of the cheetah		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory
2	is in a quote	present	it		mental property	tree rules
3	do	may · progressive	cheetah			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Asking the cheetah to play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cheetah	det
3	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Asking	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 play	mark
5	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Asking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	gerund			the cheetah				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent cheetah=Recipient clause=Topic
2	play not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Showing it is fit, so the cheetah does not bother chasing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 fit	csubj
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Showing	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fit	cop
4	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bother	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 bother	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheetah	det
8	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bother	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 bother	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 bother	advmod
11	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fit	parataxis
12	chasing	chasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bother	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		it		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
2	is	present	Showing		fit property	tree rules
3	not bother	present · do-support	the cheetah	chasing		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus chasing=Experiencer

Option 3

It has stepped on a thorn

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 stepped	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stepped	aux
3	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 thorn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thorn	det
6	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	present · perfect · passive		It		a thorn			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Trying to scare the cheetah away by running at it and biting its legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 scare	mark
3	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cheetah	det
5	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scare	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 scare	advmod
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 running	mark
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 scare	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 running	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 biting	cc
12	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 running	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	gerund			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	scare away not said to happen	to-infinitive	the cheetah	away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cheetah=Experiencer
3	run	gerund		at cheetah	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at it=Trajectory
4	bite	gerund	cheetah's legs		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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