Test 10 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«how's a chicken a dinosaur?? it's tiny lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: chicken · What happens: be · To what, where: chicken

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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	_	11 tiny	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 chicken	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chicken	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chicken	det
5	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tiny	nsubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dinosaur	det
7	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chicken	nmod
8	??	??	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tiny	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 tiny	cop
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	11 tiny	discourse
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tiny	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a chicken	a dinosaur nmod	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	a chicken		tiny property	tree rules
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

Chickens are dinosaurs only in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dinosaurs	cop
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 films	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 films	case
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dinosaurs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Chickens	dinosaurs		films			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Birds are the dinosaurs that survived, and chickens share many of their features

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaurs	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinosaurs	det
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 survived	nsubj
6	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaurs	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 share	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 share	cc
9	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 share	nsubj
10	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaurs	parataxis
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 share	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 features	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 features	nmod:poss
14	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 many	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Birds	the dinosaurs	tree rules
2	survive	past	the dinosaurs		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	share	present	chickens	many of chickens's features	tree rules
4	feature		chickens = chicken		nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Only big birds are dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 birds	advmod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dinosaurs	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dinosaurs	cop
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	big birds	dinosaurs					tree rules

Option 4

It is not, birds came from fish

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	6 came	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 came	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 came	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 fish	case
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	It					from fish; come property	tree rules

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