Test 6 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

«dodos lived in the ice age snow, saw it in the film» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: dodos, film · What happens: live, see, be · To what, where: age snow, snow, film

This is test 6 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	_	3 lived	punct
2	dodos	dodo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 snow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 age	compound
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snow	compound
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 film	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 film	det
14	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 film	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 film	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	dodos		the age snow		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in snow=Location
2	see in a quote	past	dodos not said here	snow	the film		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present	the film			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, they waddled next to mammoths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 waddled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 waddled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waddled	nsubj
4	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	next	next	ADV	_	4 waddled	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 mammoths	case
7	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 waddled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waddle	past	they			mammoths		next property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mammoth=Destination

Option 2

Yes, they lived on the ice sheets next to mammoths and sloths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 sheets	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheets	det
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sheets	compound
8	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
9	next	next	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 mammoths	case
11	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sloths	cc
13	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mammoths	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they			the ice sheets		to mammoths and sloths; next property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sheet=Location

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

No, dodos lived only on warm Mauritius, far from the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dodos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dodos	dodo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 Mauritius	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Mauritius	case
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Mauritius	amod
8	Mauritius	Mauritius	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 far	punct
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 ice	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ice	det
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	dodos			warm Mauritius		far property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mauritius=Location

Option 4

No, dodos lived in Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dodos	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dodos	dodo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Antarctica	case
6	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	dodos			Antarctica			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in antarctica=Location

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