Test 11 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

Which big animals of today are survivors of the age of giants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 11 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 animals	nsubj
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 survivors	case
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 survivors	compound
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 survivors	cop
7	survivors	survivor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 age	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 age	det
10	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 survivors	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 giants	case
12	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 age	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present					of the age of giants	of today survivors	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

Goldfish and frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 frogs	cc
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Goldfish	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Elephants, rhinos and hippos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rhinos	punct
3	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Elephants	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hippos	cc
5	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Elephants	conj

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

Option 3

Cats, dogs and rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dogs	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rabbits	cc
5	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cats	conj

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

Option 4

Sparrows, pigeons and crows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pigeons	punct
3	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sparrows	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 crows	cc
5	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sparrows	conj

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

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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