Test 8 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«they found a mammoth tooth, size of a brick, digging the new car park» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: find, dig, be · To what, where: mammoth tooth, new car park · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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	_	3 found	punct
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tooth	det
5	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tooth	amod
6	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 size	punct
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tooth	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 brick	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brick	det
11	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 digging	punct
13	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 park	det
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 park	amod
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 park	compound
17	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 digging	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	they	a mammoth tooth		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Topic
2	dig in a quote	gerund	they not said here	the new car park		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent park=Theme
3	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

Mammoths had tiny teeth, so it is fake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 teeth	amod
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fake	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 fake	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fake	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fake	cop
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Mammoths	tiny teeth					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	is	present	it					fake property	tree rules

Option 2

It must be a dinosaur egg, as those are about the size and shape of a brick

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 egg	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 egg	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 egg	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 egg	det
5	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	compound
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 size	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 size	mark
9	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 size	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 size	cop
11	about	about	ADP	_	13 size	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 size	det
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shape	cc
15	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 brick	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 brick	det
18	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shape	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	It	a dinosaur egg and the size and shape of a brick					tree rules
2	is	present	those					about the size	tree rules

Option 3

It is a rock that looks like a tooth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rock	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rock	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looks	nsubj
6	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rock	acl:relcl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 tooth	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tooth	det
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rock					tree rules
2	look	present	a rock					like a tooth	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mammoth teeth were big ridged grinders made for chewing tough grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 teeth	amod
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grinders	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grinders	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grinders	amod
5	ridged	ridge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grinders	amod
6	grinders	grinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 grinders	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 chewing	case
9	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 made	obl
10	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chewing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ridge	participle			tree rules
2	is a	past	Mammoth teeth	big ridged grinders	tree rules
3	make	participle		big ridged grinders not said here	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	chew	gerund		tough grass	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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