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Test 2 · Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs a…

In The Flintstones, Fred rides a dinosaur to work. What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fred · What happens: ride, work, be · To what, where: dinosaur, Flintstones

This is test 2 of lesson 270 «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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: In The Flintstones, Fred rides a dinosaur to work.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 Flintstones	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Flintstones	det
3	Flintstones	Flintstone	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 rides	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Flintstones	punct
5	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rides	nsubj
6	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dinosaur	det
8	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rides	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 work	mark
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dinosaur	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Fred	a dinosaur		the Flintstones			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme
2	work	to-infinitive	Fred not said here	a dinosaur not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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 true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No person ever saw a living non-bird dinosaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 saw	advmod
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dinosaur	det
6	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dinosaur	amod
7	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dinosaur	amod
8	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	no person	a living non-bird dinosaur			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dinosaur=Stimulus

Option 2

Cavemen did tame dinosaurs and used them for work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinosaurs	amod
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 used	cc
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 work	case
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Cavemen	tame dinosaurs					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Eventuality
2	use	past	Cavemen not said here	dinosaurs = dinosaur				for work	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme for work=Eventuality

Option 3

Dinosaurs lived until only about 1,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	until	until	ADP	_	7 years	case
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 1,000	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 1,000	advmod
6	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obl
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 years	advmod

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

Option 4

Some people in far-off places still ride them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ride	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 places	case
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 places	advmod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 places	compound
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 ride	advmod
9	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	some people in off places	places = place			still		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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