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title: What would happen if a cheetah chased a gazelle for two whole minute… — Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a cheetah chased a gazelle for two whole minutes at top speed? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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 4 · ★★ · Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat

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What would happen if a cheetah chased a gazelle for two whole minutes at top speed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cheetah · **What happens:** happen, chase · **To what, where:** cheetah, gazelle, top speed

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 20 «Leopards, jaguars, cheetahs and the house cat» 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/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a cheetah chased a gazelle for two whole minutes at top speed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cheetah	cheetah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	chased	chase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | a cheetah |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chase** | participle | a cheetah *not said here* | a gazelle |  | top speed | minute |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme at speed=Trajectory |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It would overheat and have to stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:t4:o1:1
# text = It would overheat and have to stop
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 2 {#o2}

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It would catch two gazelles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:t4:o2:1
# text = It would catch two gazelles
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | would | It | two gazelles |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would run even faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:t4:o3:1
# text = It would run even faster
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, cheetahs never tire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing, cheetahs never tire
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	cheetahs	cheetah	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	tire	tire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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