Test 11 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…

«if Argentinosaurus is the heaviest thing ever, beat that» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Argentinosaurus · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: heaviest thing, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	10 beat	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 thing	mark
3	Argentinosaurus	Argentinosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beat	advcl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 thing	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
10	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 true	csubj
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 beat	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 beat	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 true	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Argentinosaurus	the heaviest thing	ever		tree rules
2	beat in a quote	infinitive		that			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme
3	is	present				true 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 · ← Mova's choice

A T. rex was heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rex	det
2	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rex	compound
3	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a T. rex					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, nothing has ever been heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 heavier	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 heavier	cop
7	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	nothing						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	nothing not said here				ever	heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The blue whale is heavier, held up by water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavier	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 held	punct
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heavier	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 held	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the blue whale					heavy property	tree rules
2	hold up	participle	the blue whale not said here					by water	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

An elephant is heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavier	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a elephant					heavy property	tree rules

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