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title: A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream. What do real roadrunn… — Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and… · tree and pragmatics
description: A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream. What do real roadrunners do? Test 7 · ★ 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 r
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# Test 7 · ★ · Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote

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A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream. What do real roadrunners do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon roadrunner, real roadrunners · **What happens:** sip, be, do · **To what, where:** water, stream

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:1
# text = A cartoon roadrunner sips water from a stream.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sips	sip	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sip** | present | a cartoon roadrunner | water |  | a stream |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What do real roadrunners do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:2
# text = What do real roadrunners do?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | real roadrunners |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Drink a whole bucketful of water every hour in the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:o1:1
# text = Drink a whole bucketful of water every hour in the heat
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bucketful	bucketful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | a whole bucketful of water |  | the heat | hour |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucketful=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Drink only rain from cactus flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:o2:1
# text = Drink only rain from cactus flowers
1	Drink	drink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	cactus	cactus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | imperative | you *not said here* | rain |  | cactus flowers |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Get most water from their food and rarely drink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:o3:1
# text = Get most water from their food and rarely drink
1	Get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* | most water |  | their food |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source |
| 2 | **drink** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cannot swallow water at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote:t7:o4:1
# text = Cannot swallow water at all
1	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swallow** | can |  | water |  | all |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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**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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