Test 5 · ★ · The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals

Who would win a race across land, sea and air: a cheetah, a sailfish or a diving peregrine falcon?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: win · To what, where: race, land

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 298 «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 race	det
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	7 land	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sea	punct
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 air	cc
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 land	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 cheetah	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cheetah	det
14	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sailfish	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sailfish	det
17	sailfish	sailfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheetah	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 falcon	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 falcon	det
20	diving	diving	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 falcon	compound
21	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 falcon	compound
22	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheetah	conj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 win	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would		a race		land and sea and air			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=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

All three tie at exactly the same speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tie	nsubj
3	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 speed	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 speed	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 speed	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 speed	amod
8	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	present	all three			the same speed			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The cheetah, because it is the fastest animal of all

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	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 animal	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 animal	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 animal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cheetah	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 animal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	cheetah	the fastest animal				of all	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The sailfish, because water is fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sailfish	det
2	sailfish	sailfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fast	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sailfish	punct
4	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sailfish	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	cop
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sailfish because water					fast property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The peregrine falcon, at over 300 kilometres an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 falcon	det
2	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falcon	compound
3	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 kilometres	punct
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 300	advmod
7	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kilometres	nummod
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 falcon	nmod
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kilometres	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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