Test 7 · ★★ · The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and froz…
In a cartoon a woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed cat are best friends in the ice age. If a company made a «mammoth» today, what would it really be?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: woolly mammoth, company · What happens: tooth, be, make · To what, where: best friends, cartoon, mammoth, today
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 woolly mammoth and a sabre-toothed cat are best friends in the ice age.
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 | 15 friends | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mammoth | det |
| 5 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mammoth | amod |
| 6 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friends | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cat | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cat | det |
| 9 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toothed | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sabre | punct |
| 11 | toothed | tooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cat | amod |
| 12 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mammoth | conj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 friends | cop |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 age | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 age | det |
| 18 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 age | compound |
| 19 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friends | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 friends | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tooth | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a woolly mammoth and a toothed cat | best friends | a cartoon | in the ice age | 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.
Sentence 2: If a company made a «mammoth» today, what would it really be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mammoth | det |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 mammoth | punct |
| 7 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 be | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 be | obj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 be | aux |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 be | nsubj |
| 14 | really | really | ADV | _ | 15 be | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 today | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a company | a mammoth | today | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mammoth=Product | |||
| 2 | be | would | company | today | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
A big hairy cow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cow | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cow | amod |
| 3 | hairy | hairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cow | amod |
| 4 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
An elephant with some mammoth genes, a new animal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 genes | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 genes | det |
| 5 | mammoth | mammoth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 genes | amod |
| 6 | genes | gene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 elephant | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 animal | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 animal | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animal | amod |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 elephant | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The same mammoth from the cartoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mammoth | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mammoth | amod |
| 3 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 cartoon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cartoon | det |
| 6 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mammoth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A real sabre-toothed cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cat | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cat | amod |
| 3 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 toothed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 sabre | punct |
| 5 | toothed | tooth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cat | amod |
| 6 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tooth | participle | 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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