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Test 11 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

A giraffe and Paraceratherium both ate from treetops. Which statement is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giraffe, statement · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: treetops

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: A giraffe and Paraceratherium both ate from treetops.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 giraffe	det
2	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Paraceratherium	cc
4	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 giraffe	conj
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 ate	advmod
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 treetops	case
8	treetops	treetop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ate	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a giraffe and Paraceratherium			treetops		both property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from treetop=Source

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: Which statement is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Paraceratherium was a hornless rhino as heavy as several elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heavy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rhino	det
4	hornless	hornless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhino	amod
5	rhino	rhino	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heavy	nsubj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 heavy	advmod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 elephants	case
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 elephants	amod
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 heavy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Paraceratherium					as several elephants; heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Paraceratherium was smaller than a goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 smaller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smaller	cop
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 goat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 goat	det
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smaller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Paraceratherium					than a goat; small property	tree rules

Option 3

Paraceratherium was a dinosaur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dinosaur	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaur	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinosaur	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Paraceratherium was a kind of giraffe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Paraceratherium	Paraceratherium	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 giraffe	case
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Paraceratherium	a kind				of giraffe	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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