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.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Ice | case |
| 2 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 meets | obl |
| 3 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 3 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Ice | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ice | punct |
| 6 | Sid | Sid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 meets | nsubj |
| 7 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 meets | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 meets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | present | Sid | dinosaurs | Ice | vn 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?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Ground sloths lived millions of years after the dinosaurs died out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ground | ground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sloths | amod |
| 2 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 millions | nmod |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dinosaurs | det |
| 9 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 died | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Ground sloths | millions of years | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme million=Location | ||||
| 2 | die out | past | the dinosaurs | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2
Dinosaurs still lived in the Ice Age
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Age | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Age | det |
| 6 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Age | compound |
| 7 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Dinosaurs | in the Ice Age; still | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |
Option 3
Sloths are dinosaurs themselves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dinosaurs | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dinosaurs | cop |
| 3 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 dinosaurs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sloths | dinosaurs | Sloths = sloth nmod | tree rules |
Option 4
Nothing, ground sloths lived with dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sloths | punct |
| 3 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sloths | compound |
| 4 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dinosaurs | case |
| 7 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Nothing | with dinosaurs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with dinosaur=Location |
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