Test 2 · ★ · Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey

«Flash is slow coz sloths are just lazy, simple» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Flash · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 142 «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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	_	9 lazy	punct
2	Flash	flash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lazy	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sloths	amod
5	coz	coz	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sloths	amod
6	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lazy	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lazy	cop
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 lazy	advmod
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 right	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 simple	punct
11	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lazy	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 lazy	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	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Flash	lazy property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Flash not said here		tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Sloths save energy because their leafy food gives very little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 save	nsubj
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 gives	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gives	nsubj
8	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 save	advcl
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present	Sloths	energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
2	give	present	Sloths's leafy food	little					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme

Option 2

No, sloths are slow because they are old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 slow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 old	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 old	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 old	cop
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 slow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	sloths					slow property	tree rules
2	is	present	sloths = sloth					old property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, sloths could easily move fast if they wanted, but they choose not to bother

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 move	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 move	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 move	aux
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 move	advmod
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 move	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 wanted	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 move	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 choose	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 choose	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 choose	nsubj
14	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 move	advcl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 bother	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bother	mark
17	bother	bother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 choose	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	move	could	sloths	easily, fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	want a condition, not said to happen	past	sloths = sloth		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	choose	present	sloths = sloth		tree rules
4	not bother	to-infinitive	sloths = sloth not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, sloths sleep because they are bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 sleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 bored	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bored	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 bored	cop
8	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sleep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	sloths						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	sloths = sloth					bored property	tree rules

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