Test 11 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

«how did glyptodonts stay safe from sabre-tooths, they slow» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: glyptodonts · What happens: stay, slow, be

This is test 11 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 stay	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 stay	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	glyptodonts	glyptodont	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 tooths	case
8	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tooths	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sabre	punct
10	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 safe	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 slow	nsubj
13	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	advcl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slow	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay in a quote	past · do-support	glyptodonts	safe property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slow in a quote	present	glyptodonts = glyptodont		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
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

They climbed tall trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	They	tall trees					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their thick bony shell protected them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shell	nmod:poss
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shell	amod
3	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shell	amod
4	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 protected	nsubj
5	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 protected	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	protect	past	Their thick bony shell	them = they					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 3

They hid under the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 ice	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ice	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	They			the ice			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under ice=Location

Option 4

They ran faster than any cat, even with their heavy shells

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 ran	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 cat	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faster	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shells	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 shells	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 shells	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shells	nmod:poss
11	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shells	amod
12	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	They					with their heavy shells; fast property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with shell=Material

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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