Test 11 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

«the frill on a baby Triceratops looks well different to its mum's» Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frill · What happens: look

This is test 11 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	_	8 looks	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frill	det
3	frill	frill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looks	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 Triceratops	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Triceratops	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Triceratops	compound
7	Triceratops	triceratops	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frill	nmod
8	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 different	advmod
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 looks	xcomp
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 mum	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 different	obl
14	's	's	PART	_	13 mum	case
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 looks	punct
16	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looks	advmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	present	the frill on a baby Triceratops					different property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

Babies had no bones yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Babies	baby	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	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 had	advmod

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

Option 2

Mums broke their frills fighting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mums	mum	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	nsubj
2	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 frills	nmod:poss
4	frills	frill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 broke	obj
5	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	Mums	Mums's frills					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer frill=Patient
2	fight	gerund							vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Frills changed shape as the animal grew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frills	frill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changed	nsubj
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 grew	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	past	Frills	shape					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient
2	grow	past	the animal						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The baby was a different kind of dinosaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dinosaur	case
8	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the baby	a different kind				of dinosaur	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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