Test 7 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest

What would happen if a cheetah tried to chase a pronghorn for a long time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cheetah · What happens: happen, try, chase · To what, where: pronghorn

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheetah	det
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chase	mark
9	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pronghorn	det
11	pronghorn	pronghorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	a cheetah			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chase not said to happen	to-infinitive	a cheetah not said here	a pronghorn	time	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronghorn=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The cheetah would overheat and give up, while the pronghorn kept going

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cheetah	det
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overheat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 overheat	aux
4	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 give	cc
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 overheat	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 give	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kept	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 kept	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pronghorn	det
11	pronghorn	pronghorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kept	nsubj
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overheat	advcl
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	overheat	would	the cheetah	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	give up	infinitive	the cheetah not said here	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	keep	past	the pronghorn	tree rules
4	go	gerund	the pronghorn not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The pronghorn would turn and chase the cheetah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pronghorn	det
2	pronghorn	pronghorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 chase	cc
6	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cheetah	det
8	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the pronghorn						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	infinitive	the pronghorn not said here	the cheetah					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheetah=Theme

Option 3

The cheetah would win easily after an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cheetah	det
2	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 win	aux
4	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 win	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 hour	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	the cheetah				hour	easily property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Both would fall asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Both					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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