Test 2 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

«snakes ain't got bones, they're like jelly» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snakes, jelly · What happens: not get, be · To what, where: bones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	5 got	punct
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
3	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 jelly	csubj
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jelly	nsubj
9	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 jelly	cop
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 jelly	case
11	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 jelly	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 jelly	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 jelly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not get in a quote	present · passive	snakes	bones		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus
2	is in a quote	present	snakes = snake		like jelly	tree rules
3	is	present	jelly		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

Snakes have only a skull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 skull	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 skull	det
5	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Snakes	a skull					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skull=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Snakes have no bones at all inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 bones	det
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bones	nmod
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Snakes	no bones		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3

Snakes have 33 backbone pieces, the same as people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	33	33	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 pieces	nummod
4	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pieces	compound
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pieces	amod
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Snakes	33 backbone pieces					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Snakes have a few hundred backbone pieces with ribs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pieces	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pieces	amod
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pieces	nummod
6	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pieces	compound
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 ribs	case
9	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pieces	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Snakes	a few hundred backbone pieces				with ribs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient

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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