Test 9 · ★ · The long-necked giants: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Argenti…
A giraffe and a sauropod both have long necks for high food, but they are not related. What is this called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: have, not be, call · To what, where: long necks, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ 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 giraffe and a sauropod both have long necks for high food, but they are not related.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 giraffe | det |
| 2 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sauropod | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sauropod | det |
| 5 | sauropod | sauropod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giraffe | conj |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc:preconj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 necks | amod |
| 9 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 necks | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 related | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 related | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 related | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 related | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 related | advmod |
| 18 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 have | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a giraffe and a sauropod | long necks | for high food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is | present | giraffe | related 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.
Sentence 2: What is this called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Convergence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Convergence | convergence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Extinction
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Hibernation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hibernation | hibernation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Migration
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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