Test 3 · ★★ · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

My mate says a cheetah can run 100 km per hour all day long. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, cheetah · What happens: say, run · To what, where: 100 km · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cheetah	det
5	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 km	nummod
9	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 run	obj
10	per	per	ADP	_	11 hour	case
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 km	nmod
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 run	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 run	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	My mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	can	a cheetah	100 km			per hour; day	long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme km=Trajectory

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

No, cheetahs walk everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	cheetahs					everywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can sprint that fast only for about 20 to 30 seconds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sprint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sprint	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sprint	aux
5	sprint	sprint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 sprint	obj
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sprint	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 20	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 20	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 20	advmod
11	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 seconds	nummod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 30	case
13	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 20	nmod
14	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sprint	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprint	can	it	that			second	fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location that=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, cheetahs run faster than planes and never need to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 run	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 planes	case
7	planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 run	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	present	cheetahs	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not need	present	cheetahs not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	cheetahs not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, it never gets tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 gets	advmod
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present	it					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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