Test 1 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conser…
In The Flintstones, Fred works with a dinosaur at the quarry. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fred · What happens: work, be · To what, where: Flintstones
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 300 «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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 The Flintstones, Fred works with a dinosaur at the quarry.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Flintstones | case |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Flintstones | det |
| 3 | Flintstones | Flintstone | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 works | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Flintstones | punct |
| 5 | Fred | Fred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 works | nsubj |
| 6 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dinosaur | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dinosaur | det |
| 9 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 works | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 quarry | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quarry | det |
| 12 | quarry | quarry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 works | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Fred | the Flintstones | with a dinosaur; at the quarry | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent with dinosaur=Co-Agent at quarry=Theme |
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: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Nothing, people and dinosaurs really lived and worked together in quarries
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 people | punct |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dinosaurs | cc |
| 5 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 people | conj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 worked | cc |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lived | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 worked | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 quarries | case |
| 12 | quarries | quarry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 worked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Nothing | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work together | past | Nothing not said here | in quarries; together property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in quarry=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
People and dinosaurs missed each other by about 66 million years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dinosaurs | cc |
| 3 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 People | conj |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 missed | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 million | advmod |
| 9 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 million | compound |
| 10 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 missed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | People and dinosaurs | each | year | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Dinosaurs lived only in the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Dinosaurs | the sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |
Option 4
Dinosaurs were far too lazy to do any work for people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lazy | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lazy | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 lazy | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 lazy | advmod |
| 5 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lazy | xcomp |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Dinosaurs | far, lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Dinosaurs not said here | any work | for people | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
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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