Test 1 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…

«my book's got Brontosaurus standing in a lake cos it's too heavy for land» What do we know now?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: book, Brontosaurus, we · What happens: get, stand, co, be, know · To what, where: Brontosaurus, lake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 266 «The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Brontosaurus» 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	_	5 got	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 book	nmod:poss
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 cos	ccomp
6	Brontosaurus	Brontosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
7	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Brontosaurus	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl
11	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 heavy	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 heavy	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 heavy	advmod
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cos	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 land	case
17	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heavy	obl
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 heavy	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 know	obj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cos	parataxis
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 know	advmod
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 cos	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	my book	Brontosaurus				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brontosaurus=Stimulus
2	stand in a quote	gerund	Brontosaurus not said here		a lake			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lake=Location
3	co in a quote	present						tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	book				for land; heavy property	tree rules
5	know	present · do-support	we			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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

No, it lived up in the tall trees like a giant sloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lived	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 sloth	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sloth	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sloth	amod
13	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live up	past	it			the tall trees like a giant sloth			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 2

Yes, it was too heavy for land so it lived in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 heavy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heavy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lived	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavy	obl
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					for land; heavy property	tree rules
2	live	past	land			water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 3

Yes, it floated about like a boat with its neck up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 floated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 floated	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 floated	nsubj
4	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 floated	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 boat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floated	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 neck	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 floated	obl
12	up	up	ADP	_	4 floated	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	past	it					like a boat; with boat's neck; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Footprints and leg bones show it walked on dry land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bones	cc
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bones	compound
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Footprints	conj
5	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 show	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Footprints and leg bones						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	walk	past	it			dry land			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Trajectory

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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