Test 11 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

Why do scientists compare a few giant bones with bones of living animals?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: compare · To what, where: few giant bones

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 compare	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 compare	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compare	nsubj
4	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bones	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compare	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 bones	case
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 compare	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 animals	case
12	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bones	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 compare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	present · do-support	scientists	a few giant bones				with bones of living animals	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent bone=Patient with bone=Co-Patient

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

To work out the size and shape of the whole animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 work	mark
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 work	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 size	det
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 work	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shape	cc
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 size	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 animal	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shape	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work out	to-infinitive		the size and shape of the whole animal					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Topic

Option 2

To check the bones are not plastic toys made in a factory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 check	mark
2	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 toys	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 toys	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 toys	advmod
7	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toys	amod
8	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 check	obj
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 toys	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 factory	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 factory	det
12	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	check	to-infinitive				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	the bones	plastic toys		tree rules
3	make	participle		plastic toys not said here	a factory	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 3

To find the animal's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 animal	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		the animal's name					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name		the animal						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

To make the old bones grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bones	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	grow back	present	the old bones						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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