Test 2 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

«Triceratops and T. rex never met, T. rex came way later» Is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Triceratops, T. rex, that · What happens: not meet, come, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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	_	7 met	punct
2	Triceratops	triceratops	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 met	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rex	cc
4	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rex	compound
5	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Triceratops	conj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 met	advmod
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 right	csubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rex	compound
10	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 met	conj
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 later	obl:unmarked
13	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 came	advmod
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
15	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 right	nsubj
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not meet in a quote	past	Triceratops and T. rex		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come in a quote	past	T. rex	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they lived at the same time and place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 place	cc
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 time	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they				time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, T. rex came millions of years later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rex	compound
4	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	T. rex	millions of years				late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location million=Theme

Option 3

No, T. rex lived only in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 rex	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rex	compound
4	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	T. rex			the sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 4

Yes, Triceratops lived much later, with people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Triceratops	Triceratops	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 later	advmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 lived	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Triceratops					with people; late property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with people=Location

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