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Test 2 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…

In The Lion King, Simba's dad does the hunting and the lionesses wait at home. What is real lion life like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dad, lionesses, real lion life · What happens: do, wait, be · To what, where: hunting, home

This is test 2 of lesson 18 «The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides and roars» 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 The Lion King, Simba's dad does the hunting and the lionesses wait at home.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 King	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	compound
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 does	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 King	punct
6	Simba	Simba	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Simba	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunting	det
11	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wait	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lionesses	det
14	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wait	nsubj
15	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 does	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wait	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Simba's dad	the hunting				in the Lion King	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality
2	wait	present	the lionesses			home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

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 is real lion life like?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 life	amod
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 life	compound
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	1 What	case
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	real lion life						tree rules

The options

Option 1

The cubs hunt for the adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cubs	det
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 adults	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adults	det
6	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	the cubs					for the adults	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for adult=Theme

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

The lionesses do most of the hunting, the males guard the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lionesses	det
2	lionesses	lioness	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 do	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hunting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hunting	det
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 guard	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 males	det
10	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 guard	nsubj
11	guard	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 do	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the lionesses	most of the hunting					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality
2	guard	present	the males	the land					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary

Option 3

Males do all the hunting alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hunting	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hunting	det
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Males	all hunting				alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Eventuality

Option 4

Nobody hunts, the pride eats fruit and grass that grows near the den

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 hunts	nsubj
2	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pride	det
5	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hunts	conj
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grass	cc
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fruit	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fruit	acl:relcl
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 den	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 den	det
14	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Nobody						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	present	the pride	fruit and grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	grow	present	fruit and grass			the den			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near den=Location

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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