Test 7 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…

Why does a lion roar at dawn rather than in the hot afternoon?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: lion roar

This is test 7 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 roar	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roar	compound
5	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
8	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	13 afternoon	cc
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 rather	fixed
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 afternoon	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 afternoon	det
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 afternoon	amod
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dawn	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a lion roar			dawn		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=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

Dawn is the only time other lions are awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lions	amod
7	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 awake	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 awake	cop
9	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dawn	the only time					tree rules
2	is	present	other lions	the only time not said here				awake property	tree rules

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

Sound carries furthest in cool, still air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	furthest	furth	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 carries	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 cool	case
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 carries	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 air	punct
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 air	advmod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Sound	air		cool		furth property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent air=Value in cool=Location

Option 3

They need the sun to see who else is roaring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	advcl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 roaring	nsubj
8	else	else	ADV	_	7 who	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 roaring	aux
10	roaring	roar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	present	They	the sun	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sun=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	roar	present · progressive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

Lions lose their voice in the hot afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lose	nsubj
2	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 afternoon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 afternoon	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 afternoon	amod
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	Lions	Lions's voice			afternoon		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality

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