Test 5 · Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kaka…

An old Greek shepherd finds a huge skull with one big hole in the middle of its face. What was it most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old Greek shepherd · What happens: find, be · To what, where: huge skull, shepherd

This is test 5 of lesson 181 «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 Greek shepherd finds a huge skull with one big hole in the middle of its face.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shepherd	amod
3	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shepherd	amod
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	nsubj
5	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 skull	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 skull	amod
8	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 hole	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hole	nummod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finds	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 face	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 face	nmod:poss
18	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a old Greek shepherd	a huge skull				with one big hole in the middle of shepherd's face	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Topic

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 was it most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 What	nsubj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	1 What	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The skull of a dwarf elephant, the hole being for its trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skull	det
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 elephant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 elephant	det
5	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 elephant	amod
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skull	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trunk	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hole	det
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trunk	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 trunk	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 trunk	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 trunk	nmod:poss
13	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skull	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the hole					for hole's trunk	tree rules

Option 2

The skull of a whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skull	det
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 whale	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skull	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The skull of a real one-eyed giant from the old Greek stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skull	det
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 giant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giant	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giant	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 giant	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
8	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giant	amod
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skull	nmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	14 stories	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stories	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stories	amod
13	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stories	amod
14	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 giant	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The skull of a dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skull	det
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dragon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dragon	det
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skull	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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