Test 3 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conser…

«my dog's basically a wolf on a sofa» Is there truth in it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, wolf · What happens: be · To what, where: wolf, sofa, truth

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	7 wolf	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 truth	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 sofa	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sofa	det
10	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
12	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 truth	cop
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 Is	expl
14	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 truth	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 truth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	my dog	a wolf		a sofa		basically property	tree rules
2	is a	present	a wolf	truth				in dog	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, dogs come from wolves tamed more than 15000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 wolves	case
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 wolves	acl
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	10 15000	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	8 more	fixed
10	15000	15000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tamed	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	dogs			wolves			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location
2	tame	participle		wolves not said here			year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

No, dogs come from bears that were tamed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 bears	case
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tamed	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tamed	aux:pass
9	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bears	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	dogs			bears			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bear=Initial_Location
2	tame	past · passive		bears					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

No, dogs come from cats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 cats	case
6	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	dogs					from cats	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cat=Initial_Location

Option 4

Yes, every dog is still a wild wolf that could go back to the forest

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 wolf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wolf	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wolf	cop
6	still	still	ADV	_	9 wolf	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wolf	amod
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 go	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wolf	acl:relcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 go	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every dog	a wild wolf			still		tree rules
2	go back	could	a wild wolf					to the forest result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result

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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