Test 6 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show
Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote. What would happen in a real race?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Road Runner · What happens: get away, happen · To what, where: E. Coyote, real race
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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: Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road | Road | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Runner | compound |
| 2 | Runner | Runner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 gets | advmod |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Wile | case |
| 7 | Wile | Wile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Coyote | nmod |
| 8 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Coyote | compound |
| 9 | Coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | present | Road Runner | E. Coyote from Wile | always, away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 would happen in a real race?
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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 6 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 race | amod |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | a real race | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in race=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The coyote, about twice as fast, would usually win
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 coyote | det |
| 2 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 win | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fast | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 twice | advmod |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 fast | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 coyote | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fast | punct |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 win | aux |
| 10 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 11 win | advmod |
| 11 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | would | the coyote | usually property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The roadrunner would win easily every time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roadrunner | det |
| 2 | roadrunner | roadrunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 win | aux |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 4 win | advmod |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | would | the roadrunner | time | easily property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The roadrunner would fly far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roadrunner | det |
| 2 | roadrunner | roadrunner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 fly | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | would | the roadrunner | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
They could never meet, as they live on different continents
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 meet | advmod |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 live | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 live | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 live | nsubj |
| 8 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 meet | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 continents | case |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 continents | amod |
| 11 | continents | continent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | could | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | live | present | they | different continents | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location |
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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