Test 8 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest

«why's that beetle stopping and starting, is it stupid»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: beetle, it · What happens: stop, start, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	6 stopping	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stopping	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stopping	aux
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 beetle	det
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopping	nsubj
6	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stupid	csubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 starting	cc
8	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 stopping	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stopping	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 stupid	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stupid	nsubj
12	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 stupid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	present · progressive	that beetle		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	start in a quote	gerund	that beetle not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is in a quote	present	it	stupid 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 · ✓ the right answer

It runs so fast its eyes cannot keep up, so it stops to look

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 runs	advmod
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fast	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 keep	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stops	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 stops	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stops	nsubj
14	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 runs	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	present	It	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not keep up	can	its eyes		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	stop	present	it		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	look	to-infinitive			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It is too tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tired	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tired	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tired	advmod
4	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

It is playing a game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 playing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 playing	aux
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 game	det
5	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	It	a game					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme

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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