Test 1 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

«giraffe's got loads more neck bones than me, look at it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: get, look, be · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 got	punct
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 got	obj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 bones	amod
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	compound
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loads	nmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 bones	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	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	4 got	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	giraffe	loads more neck bones than me		tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive			at giraffe	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
3	is	present			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

It has none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	none					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both have seven, the giraffe's are just much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 have	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 much	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giraffe	case
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 much	cop
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 have	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Both	seven				long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Patient
2	is	present						much property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It has only one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 4

Right, it has about seventy, one for every year of its life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 seventy	advmod
6	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 seventy	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 year	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 year	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	seventy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seventy=Patient

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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