Test 1 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

«Titanoboa was just a big python, like 6 m, chill» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Titanoboa · What happens: be, chill · To what, where: big python

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 383 «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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	_	2 Titanoboa	punct
2	Titanoboa	Titanoboa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 python	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 python	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 python	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 python	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 python	amod
7	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 m	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 m	case
10	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 m	nummod
11	m	m	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 python	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chill	punct
13	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 python	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 chill	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chill	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 python	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Titanoboa	a big python and 6 m		tree rules
2	chill in a quote	infinitive	Titanoboa not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present			right property	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

It was about twice as long, around 13 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 long	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 twice	advmod
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 long	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 metres	punct
8	around	around	ADV	_	9 13	advmod
9	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					13 metres obl; long, twice property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it was exactly 6 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 metres	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 metres	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 metres	cop
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 6	advmod
6	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	6 metres					tree rules

Option 3

It was 100 metres long, as long as a football pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 long	cop
3	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 metres	nummod
4	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 long	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 long	advmod
8	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 long	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 pitch	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 pitch	det
11	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pitch	compound
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					100 metres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules

Option 4

It was shorter than a garden hose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shorter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shorter	cop
3	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 hose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hose	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hose	compound
7	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shorter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					than a garden hose; short property	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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