Test 1 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

«Ice Age cartoon: mammoth, sabre-tooth and sloth best mates» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Age cartoon · What happens: be

This is test 1 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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 cartoon	punct
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Age	compound
3	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cartoon	compound
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 true	nsubj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 mammoth	punct
6	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 true	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tooth	punct
8	sabre	sabre	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tooth	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sabre	punct
10	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mammoth	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sloth	cc
12	sloth	sloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mammoth	conj
13	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 mates	amod
14	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 true	nsubj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 mates	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 true	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Age cartoon					true 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 · ✓ the right answer

All three were real Ice Age animals, but they did not make friends or talk

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 three	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 animals	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 animals	compound
6	Age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	compound
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 make	advmod
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 animals	parataxis
14	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 make	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 talk	cc
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	all three	real Ice Age animals	tree rules
2	not make	past · do-support	animals = animal	friends	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
3	talk	infinitive	animals = animal not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were all kinds of elephant, so they were family and got on well

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kinds	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kinds	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kinds	det
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 elephant	case
6	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kinds	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 family	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 family	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 family	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 family	cop
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kinds	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 got	cc
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 family	conj
14	on	on	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	all kinds	of elephant	tree rules
2	is a	past	kinds = kind	family		tree rules
3	get on	past	kinds = kind not said here		well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

None of them were real; they were all made up for the cartoon film

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	5 real	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 None	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 real	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 made	aux:pass
9	all	all	ADV	_	10 made	advmod
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 real	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 made	compound:prt
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 film	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 film	det
14	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 film	compound
15	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	None					real property	tree rules
2	make up	past · passive		they				for the cartoon film; all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 4

They all really lived together with the dinosaurs, long before the Ice Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 They	det
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 dinosaurs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinosaurs	det
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 long	punct
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	14 Age	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Age	det
13	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Age	compound
14	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	past	They				before the Ice Age	with the dinosaurs; long, together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with dinosaur=Location

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