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Test 6 · ★★ · Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film m…

A museum guide says «Oviraptor stole eggs, look at its name!» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: museum guide, Oviraptor, guide · What happens: say, steal, look, name, be · To what, where: eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A museum guide says «Oviraptor stole eggs, look at its name!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guide	det
2	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guide	compound
3	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 stole	punct
6	Oviraptor	Oviraptor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stole	nsubj
7	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stole	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
10	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 name	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 name	nmod:poss
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	present	a museum guide						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	steal in a quote	past	Oviraptor	eggs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme
3	look in a quote	infinitive						at guide's name	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at name=Theme
4	name in a quote		guide						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 better?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It never went near any eggs, not even its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 eggs	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 own	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 own	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 own	advmod
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past	It	its own		any eggs			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near egg=Location

Option 2

It stole only T. rex eggs, which were the biggest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 eggs	advmod
4	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 eggs	compound
5	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eggs	compound
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stole	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 biggest	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 biggest	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 biggest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 biggest	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 eggs	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	It	T. rex eggs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme
2	is	past	T. rex eggs					big property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it stole other dinosaurs' eggs every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	nsubj
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinosaurs	amod
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eggs	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 dinosaurs	case
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stole	obj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	it	other dinosaurs's eggs			day		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Later fossils show it was sitting on its own eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 show	advmod
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 show	nsubj
3	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sitting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sitting	aux
6	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eggs	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 eggs	amod
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	fossils					late property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past · progressive	it			its own eggs			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location

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