--- title: Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. What is right? — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and… · tree and pragmatics description: Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. What is right? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 122 «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/t4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** friend, roadrunners · **What happens:** say, not fly, be · **To what, where:** all · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 122 «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:1 # text = Your friend says roadrunners cannot fly at all. 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 roadrunners roadrunner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **fly** | can | roadrunners | | | all | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | 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 is right? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:2 # text = What is right? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} They can fly, but only short and clumsily ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:o1:1 # text = They can fly, but only short and clumsily 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 clumsily clumsily ADV RB _ 7 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | can | They | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Wrong, they fly long distances every day ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:o2:1 # text = Wrong, they fly long distances every day 1 Wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fly fly VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 distances distance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | present | they | long distances | | | day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Right, they are a kind of ostrich ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:o3:1 # text = Right, they are a kind of ostrich 1 Right right INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 ostrich ostrich NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | they | a kind | | | | of ostrich | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Right, they have no wings ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t4:o4:1 # text = Right, they have no wings 1 Right right INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | they | no wings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | **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. 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