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Test 7 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…

A baby sauropod hatches from an egg the size of a football. What happens next?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: baby sauropod · What happens: hatch, happen

This is test 7 · ★ 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: A baby sauropod hatches from an egg the size of a football.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sauropod	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sauropod	compound
3	sauropod	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatches	nsubj
4	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 egg	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatches	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	nmod:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 football	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 football	det
12	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hatches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	present	a baby sauropod					from a egg the size of a football	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from egg=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 happens next?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 happens	advmod
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						next property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It stays the size of a football for all of its life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 size	det
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stays	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 football	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 football	det
7	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 size	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 stays	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It	the size of a football				for all	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme size=Location

Option 2

It changes into a bird after its first year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 bird	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 year	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 year	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	It				year	into a bird result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bird=Result

Option 3

It grows to full adult size in just one week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 size	case
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 size	amod
5	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 size	compound
6	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 week	case
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 week	nummod
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It				week	to full adult size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It grows thousands of times heavier before it is adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heavier	obl:unmarked
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 times	case
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 thousands	nmod
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 grows	xcomp
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 adult	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 adult	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 adult	cop
10	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heavier	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	It					heavy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					adult property	tree rules

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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