Test 1 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

«Bigfoot's real, it's that giant ape from China» What is the honest answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be · To what, where: giant ape, China, honest answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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 real	punct
2	Bigfoot	Bigfoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 real	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Bigfoot	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ape	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ape	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ape	cop
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 ape	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ape	amod
10	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 China	case
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ape	nmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 ape	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	it	that giant ape		China			tree rules
2	be speech: assert	present		the honest answer					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, giant apes never existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 giant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 apes	amod
4	apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 existed	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 existed	advmod
6	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past	giant apes						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, Gigantopithecus never died out and still lives in the forests of America today

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Gigantopithecus	Gigantopithecus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 died	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lives	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 lives	advmod
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 died	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forests	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forests	det
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lives	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 America	case
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 forests	nmod
15	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die out	past	Gigantopithecus				today		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	live	present	Gigantopithecus not said here			the forests of America	still		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Gigantopithecus was real but died out long ago, and there is no evidence for Bigfoot

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gigantopithecus	Gigantopithecus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 real	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 died	cc
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 real	conj
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 died	compound:prt
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ago	advmod
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 is	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 evidence	det
14	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 Bigfoot	case
16	Bigfoot	Bigfoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 evidence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Gigantopithecus		real property	tree rules
2	die out	past	Gigantopithecus not said here		ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	be	present	no evidence for Bigfoot	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, Bigfoot was filmed clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 filmed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Bigfoot	Bigfoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 filmed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 filmed	aux:pass
5	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	5 filmed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	film	past · passive		Bigfoot				clearly property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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