Test 9 · The lion: why people call it «king of the beasts»; prides…
In a cartoon, a lion lives alone in a cave and never meets other lions. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: live, not meet, be · To what, where: cartoon, other lions
This is test 9 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 a cartoon, a lion lives alone in a cave and never meets other lions.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | nsubj |
| 7 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 lives | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cave | det |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lives | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meets | cc |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 meets | advmod |
| 14 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lives | conj |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lions | amod |
| 16 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 meets | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a lion | a cartoon | in a cave; alone property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location | |||
| 2 | not meet | present | a lion not said here | other lions | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-Agent |
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 wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Lions live in trees, not caves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 trees | case |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caves | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 caves | advmod |
| 7 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Lions | caves | trees | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
Option 2
Nothing, lions always live alone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 lions | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 live | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 live | advmod |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 live | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Nothing lions | alone, always property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Lions live in prides; they are the only truly social cats
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 prides | case |
| 4 | prides | pride | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 only | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 only | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 only | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 only | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cats | amod |
| 10 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 11 social | advmod |
| 11 | social | social | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cats | amod |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Lions | prides | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pride=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Lions = lion | only property | tree rules |
Option 4
Lions live together in big underground towns that they dig in the sand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 live | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 towns | case |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 towns | amod |
| 6 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 towns | amod |
| 7 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 dig | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dig | nsubj |
| 10 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sand | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sand | det |
| 13 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dig | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | present | Lions | big underground towns | together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | |||
| 2 | dig | present | Lions = lion | the sand | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sand=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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