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Test 4 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

In The Flintstones a sabre-toothed cat is a family pet who sleeps in a cave home with people. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toothed cat, family pet · What happens: tooth, be, sleep · To what, where: family pet, Flintstones, cave

This is test 4 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

Sentence 1: In The Flintstones a sabre-toothed cat is a family pet who sleeps in a cave home with people.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Flintstones	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Flintstones	det
3	Flintstones	Flintstone	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 pet	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cat	det
5	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 toothed	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sabre	punct
7	toothed	tooth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cat	amod
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pet	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pet	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pet	det
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pet	compound
12	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sleeps	nsubj
14	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pet	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 cave	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cave	det
17	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sleeps	obl
18	home	home	ADV	_	14 sleeps	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 people	case
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sleeps	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tooth	participle							tree rules
2	is a	present	a toothed cat	a family pet		the Flintstones			tree rules
3	sleep	present	a family pet			a cave		with people; home property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location

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 real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Sabre-tooths only ate vegetables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tooths	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sabre	punct
3	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Sabre tooths	vegetables					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient

Option 2

People kept sabre-tooths as pets in caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tooths	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sabre	punct
5	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 pets	case
7	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 caves	case
9	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	People	sabre tooths		caves		as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme in cave=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sabre-tooths lived with dinosaurs and people in the same caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tooths	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sabre	punct
3	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 dinosaurs	case
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dinosaurs	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 caves	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 caves	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 caves	amod
12	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Sabre tooths			the same caves		with dinosaurs and people	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with dinosaur=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sabre-tooths were wild hunters of big plant-eaters, never pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tooths	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sabre	punct
3	tooths	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunters	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hunters	cop
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hunters	amod
6	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 eaters	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eaters	amod
9	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eaters	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 plant	punct
11	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunters	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pets	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 pets	advmod
14	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hunters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sabre tooths	wild hunters and pets				of big plant eaters	tree rules

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