Test 4 · ★★ · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

What would happen if a cheetah chased a gazelle for two whole minutes at top speed?

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

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	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	_	6 cheetah	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheetah	det
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cheetah	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gazelle	det
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 minutes	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 minutes	nummod
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 minutes	amod
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chased	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 speed	case
15	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 speed	amod
16	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chased	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a cheetah					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	participle	a cheetah not said here	a gazelle		top speed	minute		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme at speed=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would overheat and have to stop

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 overheat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overheat	aux
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheat	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	overheat	would	It	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	infinitive		tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It would catch two gazelles

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 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 gazelles	nummod
5	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	two gazelles					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme

Option 3

It would run even faster

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod

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

Option 4

Nothing, cheetahs never tire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cheetahs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tire	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tire	advmod
5	tire	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tire	present	Nothing cheetahs						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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