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title: Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote. What would happen… — Parrots, flamingos and the bird of pre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote. What would happen in a real race? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 rig
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# Test 6 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

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Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote. What would happen in a real race?

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**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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:1
# text = Road Runner always gets away from Wile E. Coyote.
1	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Runner	Runner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Wile	Wile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
8	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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 would happen in a real race?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:2
# text = What would happen in a real race?
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#options}

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

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The coyote, about twice as fast, would usually win

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:o1:1
# text = The coyote, about twice as fast, would usually win
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

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The roadrunner would win easily every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:o2:1
# text = The roadrunner would win easily every time
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The roadrunner would fly far away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:o3:1
# text = The roadrunner would fly far away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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They could never meet, as they live on different continents

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:94-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show:t6:o4:1
# text = They could never meet, as they live on different continents
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	continents	continent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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