Test 4 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest
«cheetah's the fastest animal full stop» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cheetah, full stop · What happens: be · To what, where: full stop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 2 | cheetah | cheetah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 5 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stop | amod |
| 8 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stop | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | cheetah | full stop | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | full stop | right 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, a sloth is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 faster | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sloth | det |
| 4 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 faster | cop |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a sloth | fast property | tree rules |
Option 2
Right, nothing is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 3 nothing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 faster | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 faster | cop |
| 5 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nothing | fast property | tree rules |
Option 3
No, a horse is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 faster | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horse | det |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 faster | cop |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a horse | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Fastest on land, but a diving peregrine falcon is faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fastest | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fastest | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 faster | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 falcon | det |
| 7 | diving | diving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falcon | compound |
| 8 | peregrine | peregrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falcon | compound |
| 9 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faster | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 faster | cop |
| 11 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Fastest | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a diving peregrine falcon | fast property | tree rules |
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