Test 6 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…
In a cartoon a giant prehistoric croc wears a crown and talks. What real clue tells us what Deinosuchus ate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant prehistoric croc, real clue, Deinosuchus · What happens: wear, talk, clue, tell, eat · To what, where: crown, cartoon, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: In a cartoon a giant prehistoric croc wears a crown and talks.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wears | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 croc | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 croc | amod |
| 6 | prehistoric | prehistoric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 croc | amod |
| 7 | croc | croc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wears | nsubj |
| 8 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wears | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 talks | cc |
| 12 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wears | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | a giant prehistoric croc | a crown | a cartoon | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | |||
| 2 | talk | present | a giant prehistoric croc not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 real clue tells us what Deinosuchus ate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 clue | nsubj |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 clue | amod |
| 3 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tells | nsubj |
| 4 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tells | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ate | obj |
| 7 | Deinosuchus | Deinosuchus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ate | nsubj |
| 8 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 tells | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 tells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clue | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | real clue | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | Deinosuchus | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Its pictures in cave paintings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 pictures | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 paintings | case |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paintings | compound |
| 5 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pictures | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bite marks from its teeth in dinosaur bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marks | compound |
| 2 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 teeth | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 marks | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bones | case |
| 7 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bones | compound |
| 8 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 teeth | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Its crown shows it was king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 king | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Its crown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | crown | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | Its = it | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
Its words written down in very old books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 written | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 books | case |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 old | advmod |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 books | amod |
| 8 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 written | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write down | participle · passive | Its words | old books | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | ||||
| 2 | word | Its = it | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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