Test 2 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…
Scooby and Shaggy share a giant sandwich in one gulp. What could happen to a real Great Dane that eats too much too fast?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Scooby, real Great Dane · What happens: share, happen, eat · To what, where: giant sandwich, one gulp, much
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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
Sentence 1: Scooby and Shaggy share a giant sandwich in one gulp.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scooby | Scooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Shaggy | cc |
| 3 | Shaggy | Shaggy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Scooby | conj |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sandwich | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sandwich | amod |
| 7 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 gulp | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 gulp | nummod |
| 10 | gulp | gulp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 share | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Scooby and Shaggy | a giant sandwich | one gulp | 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.
Sentence 2: What could happen to a real Great Dane that eats too much too fast?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Dane | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Dane | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dane | amod |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Dane | amod |
| 8 | Dane | dane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eats | nsubj |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Dane | acl:relcl |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eats | obj |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 eats | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | could | to a real Great Dane | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | a real Great Dane | much | fast property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, because big dogs can eat anything at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 eat | mark |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dogs | amod |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eat | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 eat | aux |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Nothing | parataxis |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 eat | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | can | big dogs | anything | all | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
Option 2
It would start talking like Scooby
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 start | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | aux |
| 3 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 start | xcomp |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Scooby | case |
| 6 | Scooby | Scooby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | would | It | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | like Scooby | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Its stomach can twist, which is an emergency for a vet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twist | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 twist | aux |
| 4 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 emergency | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 emergency | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 emergency | cop |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 emergency | det |
| 9 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 twist | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 vet | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 vet | det |
| 12 | vet | vet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emergency | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | can | Its stomach | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | a emergency | for a vet | tree rules |
Option 4
It would grow even taller and stronger than other Great Danes
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 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 grow | aux |
| 3 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 taller | advmod |
| 5 | taller | tall | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grow | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stronger | cc |
| 7 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 taller | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 Danes | case |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Danes | amod |
| 10 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Danes | amod |
| 11 | Danes | Dane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 taller | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | would | It | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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