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Test 3 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest

In the film Turbo a snail wins a car race. Which real animal can beat a car on a motorway?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snail, real animal · What happens: win, beat · To what, where: car race, film, car

This is test 3 · ★★ 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 the film Turbo a snail wins a car race.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wins	obl
4	Turbo	Turbo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 film	appos
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snail	det
6	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wins	nsubj
7	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 race	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 race	compound
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wins	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	a snail	a car race		the film			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=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.

Sentence 2: Which real animal can beat a car on a motorway?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 animal	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	aux
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 motorway	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 motorway	det
10	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 beat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	can	which real animal	a car				on a motorway	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent car=Instrument on motorway=Patient

The options

Option 1

A tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

A falcon diving, and maybe a free-tailed bat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 diving	det
2	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diving	compound
3	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bat	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bat	cc
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	11 bat	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bat	det
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tailed	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 free	punct
10	tailed	tail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bat	amod
11	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 diving	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tail	participle							vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A garden snail sliding downhill on a wet, rainy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snail	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snail	compound
3	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	sliding	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 snail	acl
5	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	4 sliding	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wet	punct
10	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund	a garden snail not said here				day	downhill property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A sloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sloth	det
2	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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