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Test 4 · Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dun…

A cartoon dinosaur film shows T. rex and Stegosaurus fighting. What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: dinosaur film, T. rex · What happens: show, fight, be · To what, where: T. rex

This is test 4 of lesson 265 «Tyrannosaurus rex: what we really know, from teeth and dung to tiny arms» 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: A cartoon dinosaur film shows T. rex and Stegosaurus fighting.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dinosaur	compound
3	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	nsubj
5	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	compound
7	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shows	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 Stegosaurus	cc
9	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	conj
10	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 rex	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a dinosaur film	T. rex and Stegosaurus					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rex=Recipient
2	fight	gerund	T. rex and Stegosaurus not said here						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 is wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Stegosaurus was much bigger and stronger than T. rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bigger	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 rex	case
8	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rex	compound
9	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Stegosaurus					than T. rex; big property	tree rules
2	be		Stegosaurus not said here						tree rules

Option 2

They were the same animal with two names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 animal	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 names	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 names	nummod
8	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 animal	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	the same animal				with two names	tree rules

Option 3

T. rex was far too small to fight a Stegosaurus at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 small	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fight	mark
8	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 small	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Stegosaurus	det
10	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fight	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	T. rex					far, small property	tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	T. rex not said here	a Stegosaurus		all			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stegosaurus=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They lived about 80 million years apart and never met

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 million	advmod
4	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 million	compound
5	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 apart	obl:unmarked
7	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 met	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 met	advmod
10	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They					apart property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not meet	participle	They not said here						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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