Test 5 · ★★ · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

Why does a cheetah not roar at her cubs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: cheetah, cubs

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cheetah	det
4	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 roar	advmod
6	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cubs	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cubs	nmod:poss
9	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 does	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		a cheetah		cheetah's cubs		roar obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheetah=Eventuality

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

She does not want lions to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hear	mark
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	She	lions					tree rules
2	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	lions not said here						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cheetahs cannot roar; she chirps, and the cubs answer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roar	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 roar	advmod
4	roar	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 chirps	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chirps	nsubj
7	chirps	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answer	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 answer	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cubs	det
11	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 answer	nsubj
12	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 roar	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not roar	can	Cheetahs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	chirp	present	she	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	present	the cubs	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

She roars only on Sundays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 roars	nsubj
2	roars	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 Sundays	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Sundays	case
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 roars	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	present	She				sunday		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

Her cubs are deaf and cannot hear a roar at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cubs	nmod:poss
2	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deaf	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deaf	cop
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 deaf	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roar	det
10	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Her cubs					deaf property	tree rules
2	not hear	can	Her cubs not said here	a roar		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus

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