Test 10 · ★ · Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present
A cartoon shows a sea scorpion the size of a beetle. What could the real biggest ones be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show · To what, where: sea scorpion
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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 cartoon shows a sea scorpion the size of a beetle.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scorpion | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scorpion | compound |
| 6 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 size | det |
| 8 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scorpion | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beetle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 beetle | det |
| 11 | beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 size | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | a sea scorpion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scorpion=Recipient |
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 could the real biggest ones be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ones | det |
| 4 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ones | amod |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 ones | amod |
| 6 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ones | acl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
As big as a blue whale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 whale | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whale | amod |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
As big as an island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 big | advmod |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 big | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Smaller than an ant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 ant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ant | det |
| 4 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Smaller | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Longer than a man
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Longer | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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