Test 2 · ★ · How animals hunt

Why can a cheetah not keep running at top speed for a whole minute?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cheetah · What happens: not keep, run · To what, where: top speed

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 52 «How animals hunt» 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	6 keep	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cheetah	det
4	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 keep	advmod
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 speed	case
9	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 speed	amod
10	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 minute	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 minute	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 minute	amod
14	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 running	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	can	a cheetah						tree rules
2	run	gerund	a cheetah not said here			top speed	minute		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It overheats and tires very quickly

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 overheats	nsubj
2	overheats	overheat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tires	cc
4	tires	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 overheats	conj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 tires	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	present	It						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	tire	present						quickly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Its claws get blunt after a few seconds

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 claws	nmod:poss
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 seconds	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 seconds	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seconds	amod
8	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Its claws				second	blunt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Its tail gets tangled

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 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tangled	nsubj:pass
3	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tangled	aux:pass
4	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle	present · passive		Its tail					tree rules

Option 4

The gazelle always gives up first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gazelle	det
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gives	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 gives	advmod
4	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 gives	compound:prt
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	present	the gazelle					always, first property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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