Test 2 · ★ · Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present

«megalodon is the biggest animal ever, end of» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: megalodon · What happens: be · To what, where: biggest animal

This is test 2 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct
2	megalodon	megalodon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 animal	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 end	punct
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 What	case
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 of	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 end	nmod
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 What	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	megalodon	the biggest animal			ever		tree rules
2	is	present						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 · ← Mova's choice

No, a T. rex was bigger and heavier than it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rex	det
4	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rex	compound
5	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bigger	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bigger	cop
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 heavier	cc
9	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 bigger	conj
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a T. rex					than it; big property	tree rules
2	be		a T. rex not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Yes, nothing at all was ever bigger than it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nothing	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 bigger	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bigger	cop
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 bigger	advmod
8	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	nothing				ever	than it; big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the blue whale alive today is bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	nsubj
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	obl:unmarked
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bigger	cop
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 alive	conj

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

Option 4

No, a giant squid is bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 squid	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 squid	amod
5	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bigger	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 bigger	cop
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

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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