Test 3 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

«my mate says Diego's just a tiger with big teeth» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, big teeth · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Diego	Diego	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 tiger	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Diego	case
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 tiger	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tiger	det
9	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tiger	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 teeth	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	big teeth					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 · ✓ the right answer

No, Smilodon was not a tiger but a separate extinct branch of cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 tiger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Smilodon	Smilodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tiger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tiger	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 tiger	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tiger	det
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 branch	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 branch	det
10	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 branch	amod
11	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 branch	amod
12	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tiger	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 cats	case
14	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 branch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	Smilodon	a tiger but a separate extinct branch of cats					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, and tigers still grow fangs that long when they get very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 grow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grow	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grow	cc
4	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	obj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 long	nsubj
9	long	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fangs	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 get	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
12	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 long	advcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	tigers	fangs	still		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fang=Theme
2	long	present	fangs				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	get	present	tigers = tiger			old property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, Diego was a kind of bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Diego	Diego	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 bear	case
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Diego	a kind				of bear	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, all sabre-tooths were tigers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tigers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 tooths	det
4	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tooths	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 sabre	punct
6	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tigers	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tigers	cop
8	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	all sabre tooths	tigers					tree rules

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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