Test 8 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

«mammoth bone houses?? no way» Is that real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mammoth bone houses · What happens: be

This is test 8 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 houses	punct
2	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 houses	amod
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 houses	compound
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 real	nsubj
5	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 way	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 houses	conj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 houses	punct
9	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 real	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 real	mark
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	mammoth bone houses and no way					real 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 · ← Mova's choice

No, it is only in cartoons and films, never in real life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 cartoons	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cartoons	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cartoons	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 cartoons	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 cartoons	case
7	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 films	cc
9	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cartoons	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 life	punct
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 life	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 life	case
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 life	amod
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cartoons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			cartoons and films and real life			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, Ice Age people in Ukraine built huts from mammoth bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 people	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Age	compound
4	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 people	compound
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ukraine	case
7	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
8	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bones	case
11	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bones	amod
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	Age people in Ukraine	huts		mammoth bones			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent hut=Product from bone=Material

Option 3

Yes, but they were really dinosaur bones, not mammoth bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 bones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 bones	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bones	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bones	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 bones	advmod
7	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bones	compound
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bones	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 bones	advmod
11	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bones	amod
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	dinosaur bones and mammoth bones					tree rules

Option 4

No, people at that time lived only in trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 people	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 trees	case
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	people at that time			trees			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

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