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Test 1 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest

In Looney Tunes the Road Runner always outruns the coyote. What is true in real life?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Road Runner · What happens: outrun, be · To what, where: coyote, Looney Tunes, real life

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 185 «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 Looney Tunes the Road Runner always outruns the coyote.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Tunes	case
2	Looney	Looney	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tunes	compound
3	Tunes	Tune	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 outruns	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Runner	det
5	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Runner	compound
6	Runner	Runner	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 outruns	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 outruns	advmod
8	outruns	outrun	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 coyote	det
10	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 outruns	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 outruns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outrun	present	the Road Runner	the coyote		Looney Tunes		always 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.

Sentence 2: What is true in real life?

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	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Coyotes are slower than sloths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slower	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slower	cop
3	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 sloths	case
5	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slower	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Coyotes					than sloths; slow property	tree rules

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

A real coyote runs about twice as fast as 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	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twice	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 fast	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 runs	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 roadrunner	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 roadrunner	det
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 roadrunner	amod
12	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fast	obl

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

Option 3

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

Option 4

Roadrunners are the fastest birds alive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Roadrunners	the fastest birds					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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