Test 6 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…

«Bronto's not real, my dad says, it's just Apatosaurus» Who is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bronto, dad, it, Apatosaurus · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: Apatosaurus · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 real	punct
2	Bronto	Bronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 real	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 real	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 says	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 real	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Apatosaurus	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 Apatosaurus	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Apatosaurus	cop
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 Apatosaurus	advmod
14	Apatosaurus	Apatosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 Apatosaurus	punct
16	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Apatosaurus	acl:relcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Bronto		real property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my dad			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	it	Apatosaurus		tree rules
4	is	present	Apatosaurus		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

Dad, the name was dropped for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dad	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dropped	aux:pass
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · passive		Dad					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Brontosaurus is a kind of whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brontosaurus	Brontosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 whale	case
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Brontosaurus	a kind				of whale	tree rules

Option 3

Neither, both names are made up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 made	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 names	det
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		both names				neither property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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

A 2015 study said Brontosaurus is its own kind again, so the name is back

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 study	det
2	2015	2015	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 study	nummod
3	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Brontosaurus	Brontosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kind	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 is	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 name	det
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	parataxis
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 is	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a 2015 study			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Brontosaurus	study's own kind	again	tree rules
3	be back	present	the name			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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