Test 10 · ★★ · Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film m…

«did raptors hunt like wolves in a pack or what» What is the honest answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raptors · What happens: hunt, be · To what, where: pack, honest answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 268 «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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	_	4 hunt	punct
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
3	raptors	raptor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 wolves	case
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 pack	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pack	det
9	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunt	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 pack	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 answer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 what	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt in a quote	past · do-support	raptors			a pack		like wolves	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pack=Location
2	be speech: assert	present		the honest answer					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

Only on cold nights, never by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 nights	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 nights	case
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nights	amod
4	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 day	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 day	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nights	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No, they hunted only in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 hunted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunted	nsubj
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 hunted	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	they			the sea			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

We are not sure; the evidence is thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sure	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sure	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 sure	advmod
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 sure	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 evidence	det
7	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thin	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thin	cop
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sure	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	We					sure property	tree rules
2	is	present	the evidence					thin property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is proved for every single raptor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 proved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proved	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proved	aux:pass
5	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 raptor	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 raptor	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 raptor	amod
9	raptor	raptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive		it				for every single raptor	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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