Test 7 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

«hedgehogs are speedy, that's why Sonic is one» What is the real speed of a hedgehog?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: hedgehogs, that, Sonic, one · What happens: be · To what, where: one, real speed

This is test 7 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 speedy	punct
2	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 speedy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 speedy	cop
4	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 why	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 why	cop
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 speedy	parataxis
9	Sonic	Sonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 one	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 speed	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 speed	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 speed	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 speed	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 speed	amod
17	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 why	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 hedgehog	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hedgehog	det
20	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speed	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 speedy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	hedgehogs		speedy property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		why property	tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	Sonic	one		tree rules
4	is a	present	one	the real speed	of a hedgehog	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.

The options

Option 1

It never moves at all

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 moves	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	It			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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

It trots at about a person's walking speed

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	2 trots	nsubj
2	trots	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	9 speed	case
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 person	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speed	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 person	case
8	walking	walking	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speed	compound
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trot	present	It			a person's walking speed			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory

Option 3

It is faster than a cheetah

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 faster	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faster	cop
3	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 cheetah	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheetah	det
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than a cheetah; fast property	tree rules

Option 4

It runs faster than a car on a motorway

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	2 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 runs	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faster	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 motorway	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 motorway	det
9	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	It			a motorway		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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