Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / questions / Biology / The South American area: sloths, antea… / t4

Test 4 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…

In Ice Age 3, Sid meets dinosaurs. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sid · What happens: meet, be · To what, where: dinosaurs, Ice

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 108 «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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: In Ice Age 3, Sid meets dinosaurs.

caseoblnmod:unmarkedappospunctnsubjobjpunctrootInADPIcePROPNAgePROPN3NUM,PUNCTSidPROPNmeetsVERBdinosaursNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 Icecase
2IceIcePROPNNumber=Sing7 meetsobl
3AgeAgePROPNNumber=Sing4 3nmod:unmarked
433NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card2 Iceappos
5,,PUNCT_2 Icepunct
6SidSidPROPNNumber=Sing7 meetsnsubj
7meetsmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
8dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur7 meetsobj
9..PUNCT_7 meetspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1meetpresentSiddinosaursIcevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-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 is wrong?

nsubjcoppunctrootWhatPRONisAUXwrongADJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 wrongnsubj
2isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 wrongcop
3wrongwrongADJDegree=Posrootroot
4??PUNCT_3 wrongpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentwrong propertytree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Ground sloths lived millions of years after the dinosaurs died out

amodnsubjobjcasenmodmarkdetnsubjadvclcompound:prtrootGroundADJslothsNOUNlivedVERBmillionsNOUNofADPyearsNOUNafterSCONJtheDETdinosaursNOUNdiedVERBoutADP
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GroundgroundADJDegree=Pos2 slothsamod
2slothsslothNOUNNumber=Plur3 livednsubj
3livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4millionsmillionNOUNNumber=Plur3 livedobj
5ofofADP_6 yearscase
6yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur4 millionsnmod
7afterafterSCONJ_10 diedmark
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 dinosaursdet
9dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur10 diednsubj
10dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 livedadvcl
11outoutADP_10 diedcompound:prt
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepastGround slothsmillions of yearsvn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme million=Location
2die outpastthe dinosaursvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Dinosaurs still lived in the Ice Age

nsubjadvmodcasedetcompoundoblrootDinosaursNOUNstillADVlivedVERBinADPtheDETIcePROPNAgePROPN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1DinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur3 livednsubj
2stillstillADV_3 livedadvmod
3livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ininADP_7 Agecase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Agedet
6IceIcePROPNNumber=Sing7 Agecompound
7AgeAgePROPNNumber=Sing3 livedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepastDinosaursin the Ice Age; stillvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location

Option 3

Sloths are dinosaurs themselves

nsubjcopnmodrootSlothsNOUNareAUXdinosaursNOUNthemselvesPRON
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SlothsslothNOUNNumber=Plur3 dinosaursnsubj
2arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 dinosaurscop
3dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
4themselvesthemselvesPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes3 dinosaursnmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentSlothsdinosaursSloths = sloth nmodtree rules

Option 4

Nothing, ground sloths lived with dinosaurs

nsubjpunctcompoundconjcaseoblrootNothingPRON,PUNCTgroundNOUNslothsNOUNlivedVERBwithADPdinosaursNOUN
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg5 livednsubj
2,,PUNCT_4 slothspunct
3groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing4 slothscompound
4slothsslothNOUNNumber=Plur1 Nothingconj
5livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6withwithADP_7 dinosaurscase
7dinosaursdinosaurNOUNNumber=Plur5 livedobl
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepastNothingwith dinosaursvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with dinosaur=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters/t4/