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Test 5 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

In a cartoon a giant snake lives in an icy mountain cave. Why is that unlike Titanoboa?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant snake · What happens: live, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon a giant snake lives in an icy mountain cave.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snake	amod
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	nsubj
7	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 cave	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cave	det
10	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cave	amod
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cave	compound
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lives	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a giant snake			a cartoon		in a icy mountain cave	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location

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: Why is that unlike Titanoboa?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 Titanoboa	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 Titanoboa	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 Titanoboa	mark
4	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	5 Titanoboa	case
5	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Titanoboa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						unlike Titanoboa	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Titanoboa was warm-blooded like a bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blooded	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blooded	aux:pass
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blooded	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 warm	punct
5	blooded	blood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bear	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blooded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blood	past · passive		Titanoboa				like a bear	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Snakes cannot live in caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 caves	case
6	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	Snakes			caves			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Titanoboa needed a hot swamp, since cold-blooded animals grow bigger where it is warm

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swamp	det
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swamp	amod
5	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 grow	mark
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blooded	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 cold	punct
10	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 needed	parataxis
13	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grow	xcomp
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 warm	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 warm	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 warm	cop
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Titanoboa	a hot swamp					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot swamp=Theme
2	grow	present	blooded animals					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	swamp					warm property	tree rules

Option 4

Titanoboa lived far out in the open sea and never once came near any land at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 out	advmod
4	out	out	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sea	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 came	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 all	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Titanoboa			the open sea		out property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
2	not come	past	Titanoboa not said here			any land		at all; once property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near land=Location

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