Test 6 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

What would happen if a cheetah tried to chase a gazelle for a whole kilometre at top speed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cheetah · What happens: happen, try, chase · To what, where: gazelle, top speed

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 tried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cheetah	det
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chase	mark
9	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 gazelle	det
11	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 kilometre	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 kilometre	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kilometre	amod
15	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 speed	case
17	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 speed	amod
18	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	a cheetah				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chase not said to happen	to-infinitive	a cheetah not said here	a gazelle	top speed	for a whole kilometre	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gazelle=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

It would just keep getting faster

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	4 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It						tree rules
2	get	gerund						fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It would overheat and have to stop

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 overheat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overheat	aux
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 have	cc
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheat	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	overheat	would	It	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	infinitive		tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Nothing, cheetahs never tire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cheetahs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tire	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 tire	advmod
5	tire	tire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tire	present	Nothing cheetahs						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It would turn into a leopard

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 leopard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leopard	det
6	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a leopard result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into leopard=Result

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