Test 3 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…
«giraffe's neck bones vs sauropod's, giraffe has loads more right?» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: have, be · To what, where: loads
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: «giraffe's neck bones vs sauropod's, giraffe has loads more right?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 bones | punct |
| 2 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 giraffe | case |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | compound |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | vs | versus | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 7 sauropod | case |
| 7 | sauropod | sauropod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | nmod |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 sauropod | case |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 10 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bones | parataxis |
| 12 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 has | obj |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 right | amod |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 loads | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | giraffe | loads more right | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient |
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 right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They both have exactly 7
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 | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 5 7 | advmod |
| 5 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | They | 7 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, a giraffe has 7 and a sauropod had 12 to 19
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giraffe | det |
| 4 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 has | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sauropod | det |
| 9 | sauropod | sauropod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 11 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 had | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 19 | case |
| 13 | 19 | 19 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 12 | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a giraffe | 7 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 7=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a sauropod | 12 | to 19 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 12=Patient |
Option 3
Sauropods had no neck bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sauropods | sauropod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 bones | det |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | compound |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Sauropods | no neck bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
Option 4
Yes, a giraffe has about 50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giraffe | det |
| 4 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 50 | advmod |
| 7 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a giraffe | 50 | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 50=Patient |
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