Test 10 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

«there's no giants left to find, scientists found everything» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giants, scientists · What happens: be, leave, find · To what, where: giants, everything

This is test 10 · ★★★ 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	_	3 's	punct
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 's	expl
3	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 giants	det
5	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 's	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 giants	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 found	punct
10	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 's	conj
12	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 found	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 everything	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 true	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 true	cop
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 everything	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 's	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	no giants		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave in a quote	participle		no giants not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find in a quote	to-infinitive					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	find in a quote	past	scientists	everything			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Topic
5	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

Scientists stopped looking in 1900

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stopped	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 1900	case
5	1900	1900	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Scientists						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	look	gerund	Scientists not said here					in 1900	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in 1900=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Almost all big animals are known, but most living species are still unnamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 animals	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 known	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux:pass
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 unnamed	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 unnamed	cc
9	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 species	amod
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 species	amod
11	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 unnamed	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 unnamed	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 unnamed	advmod
14	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 known	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		all big animals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	present	most living species				still	unnamed property	tree rules

Option 3

No, new giants are found every week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 giants	amod
4	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 found	aux:pass
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		new giants			week		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 4

Yes, every species is named

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 named	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 species	det
4	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 named	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 named	aux:pass
6	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		every species					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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