Test 4 · Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits

«bloody fox screaming outside again at 2am, is someone being murdered» What is it most likely?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloody fox · What happens: scream, murder, be · To what, where: 2, bloody fox, fox

This is test 4 of lesson 141 «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 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 fox	punct
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fox	amod
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 murdered	nsubj:pass
4	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fox	acl
5	outside	outside	ADV	_	4 screaming	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 screaming	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 2	case
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 screaming	obl
9	am	a.m.	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 2	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fox	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 murdered	aux:pass
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 murdered	nsubj
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 murdered	aux:pass
14	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 murdered	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 murdered	obl:agent
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 What	nsubj
19	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	20 likely	advmod
20	likely	likely	ADV	_	16 What	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 murdered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express in a quote	gerund	bloody fox not said here		2 am	again	outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at 2=Location
2	murder in a quote	present · passive		bloody fox				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	is a	present		fox				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

A fox that is badly hurt every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hurt	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux:pass
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hurt	advmod
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fox	acl:relcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive		a fox			time	badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

A fox calling, which is normal on winter nights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 calling	nsubj
3	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 normal	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 normal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 normal	cop
7	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calling	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 nights	case
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nights	compound
10	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 normal	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	gerund	a fox						vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present					night	normal property	tree rules

Option 3

A rabbit screaming for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 rabbit	acl
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 help	case
5	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 screaming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	gerund	a rabbit not said here					for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient

Option 4

An owl that has caught a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 owl	acl:relcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present · perfect · passive		a owl					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary cat=Theme

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