Test 1 · ★★ · Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric…

An old story tells of a hunter who found an anaconda as long as a bus, about 12 metres. What would a scientist say?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old story, hunter, scientist · What happens: tell, find, say · To what, where: anaconda · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 158 «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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: An old story tells of a hunter who found an anaconda as long as a bus, about 12 metres.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 story	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	nsubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hunter	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hunter	det
7	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hunter	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 anaconda	det
11	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 bus	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 bus	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bus	det
16	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 metres	punct
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 12	advmod
19	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 metres	nummod
20	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bus	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a old story					of a hunter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	a hunter	a anaconda				as a bus	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent anaconda=Theme as bus=Attribute

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 would a scientist say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 scientist	det
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a scientist						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

No anaconda over about seven metres has been well measured, so the tale is doubtful

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 anaconda	det
2	anaconda	anaconda	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 measured	nsubj:pass
3	over	over	ADP	_	6 metres	case
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 seven	advmod
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 metres	nummod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 anaconda	nmod
7	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 measured	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 measured	aux:pass
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 measured	advmod
10	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 doubtful	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 doubtful	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tale	det
14	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 doubtful	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 doubtful	cop
16	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 measured	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · perfect · passive		no anaconda over seven metres				well property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
2	is	present	the tale					doubtful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Too short, because they are often found reaching a hundred metres in the jungle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 short	advmod
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 found	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux:pass
7	often	often	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 short	conj
9	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 found	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hundred	det
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 reaching	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 jungle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 jungle	det
15	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		they				often property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	reach	gerund	they not said here	hundred metres		the jungle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent metre=Theme

Option 3

Snakes cannot grow longer than a metre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 metre	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 metre	det
8	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	can	Snakes					than a metre; long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Totally true, they are often that long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 often	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 often	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 often	cop
6	often	often	ADV	_	2 true	advmod
7	that	that	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 often	advmod

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

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