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Test 1 · ★ · Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles,…

In the cartoon Road Runner always zooms away from Wile E. Coyote. What is true about the real animals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Road Runner · What happens: zoom away, be · To what, where: E. Coyote, cartoon

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 182 «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 cartoon Road Runner always zooms away from Wile E. Coyote.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zooms	obl
4	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Runner	compound
5	Runner	Runner	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 zooms	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 zooms	advmod
7	zooms	zoom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 zooms	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 Wile	case
10	Wile	Wile	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Coyote	nmod
11	E.	E.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Coyote	compound
12	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zooms	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 zooms	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zoom away	present	Road Runner	E. Coyote from Wile		the cartoon		always, away property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory

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 true about the real animals?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 animals	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the real animals; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Coyotes never hunt roadrunners at all in the real desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hunt	advmod
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 hunt	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 desert	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 desert	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 desert	amod
10	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	present	Coyotes	roadrunners		all		in the real desert	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

Roadrunners cannot run, only fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 run	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run	can	Roadrunners						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	infinitive	Roadrunners not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A real coyote can run faster than a real roadrunner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coyote	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coyote	amod
3	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 roadrunner	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roadrunner	det
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roadrunner	amod
10	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	can	a real coyote					than a real roadrunner; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Roadrunners are faster than cheetahs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cheetahs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cheetahs	cop
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 cheetahs	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 cheetahs	case
5	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Roadrunners					than cheetahs; fast property	tree rules

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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