Test 1 · ★ · The desert: living with little water

«road runner's well faster than the coyote, cartoon proves it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: road runner · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 5 «The desert: living with little water» 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	_	12 proves	punct
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runner	compound
3	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proves	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 proves	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 proves	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 coyote	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coyote	det
9	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proves	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coyote	punct
11	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proves	nsubj
12	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proves	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 proves	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 proves	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 proves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	road runner					than the coyote; fast, prove property	tree rules
2	is	present						right property	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

Yes, roadrunners run at 300 km per hour, faster than any car on the road

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 km	case
6	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 km	nummod
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	obl
8	per	per	ADP	_	9 hour	case
9	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 km	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 faster	punct
11	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 run	conj
12	than	than	ADP	_	14 car	case
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 car	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 faster	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	roadrunners			300 km per hour		on the road	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory

Option 2

No, roadrunners can fly away at jet speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fly	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 speed	case
8	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 speed	compound
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	can	roadrunners			jet speed		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Location

Option 3

Yes, coyotes can never catch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 catch	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 catch	advmod
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	can	coyotes	them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A real coyote runs about twice as fast and sometimes catches roadrunners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 coyote	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 coyote	amod
3	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 twice	advmod
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 runs	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 runs	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 catches	cc
10	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 catches	advmod
11	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 runs	conj
12	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 catches	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run about	present	a real coyote					fast, twice property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	present	a real coyote not said here	roadrunners				sometimes property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roadrunner=Theme

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