Test 1 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

«Stegosaurus had a brain in its bum to help it walk, read it in a book» Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Stegosaurus, brain, that · What happens: have, help, walk, read, be · To what, where: brain, bum, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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	_	3 had	punct
2	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 right	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brain	det
5	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 bum	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bum	nmod:poss
8	bum	bum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 read	punct
14	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 help	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 read	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 book	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 book	det
18	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 read	obl
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
20	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 right	cop
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 right	nsubj
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	Stegosaurus	a brain	brain's bum		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient
2	help in a quote	to-infinitive	Stegosaurus not said here	brain			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	walk in a quote	infinitive	brain not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	read in a quote	infinitive	Stegosaurus not said here	brain	a book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	is	present	that			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

Yes, but only babies had it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 had	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 babies	advmod
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	babies	it					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that is an old myth; the space held nerves and maybe stored energy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 myth	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 myth	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 myth	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 myth	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 myth	amod
7	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 space	det
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 myth	parataxis
12	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stored	cc
14	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	15 stored	advmod
15	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 held	conj
16	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	a old myth		tree rules
2	hold	past	the space	nerves		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme
3	store	participle	the space not said here	energy	maybe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

Option 3

No, it had no brain at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 brain	det
6	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	no brain		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

Option 4

Yes, it had two brains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 brains	nummod
6	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	two brains					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient

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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