Test 2 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mammoths · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 fought	punct
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fought	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 dinosaurs	cc
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mammoths	conj
5	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 fought	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cartoons	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 cartoons	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 cartoons	case
11	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fought	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 cartoons	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fought	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	past	mammoths and dinosaurs	each				like cartoons	tree rules
2	is	present						right property	tree rules

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

Option 1

Yes, in the Ice Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Age	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Age	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 Age	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Age	det
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Age	compound
6	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, but only the biggest dinosaurs, which liked to hunt the baby mammoths

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 dinosaurs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 dinosaurs	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 dinosaurs	amod
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 liked	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 liked	nsubj
10	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dinosaurs	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hunt	mark
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 liked	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 mammoths	det
14	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mammoths	compound
15	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	the biggest dinosaurs						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hunt not said to happen	to-infinitive	the biggest dinosaurs not said here	the baby mammoths					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, dinosaurs died out over 60 million years before mammoths lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	over	over	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
7	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
11	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	dinosaurs				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	live	past	mammoths						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, all the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 time	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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