Test 7 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

«scientist said dunno what the snout bump was for, bad scientist lol» What is the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientist, snout bump, fair view · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	3 said	punct
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dunno	dunno	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 said	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bump	det
7	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bump	compound
8	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scientist	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scientist	cop
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 scientist	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scientist	punct
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 scientist	amod
13	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	acl:relcl
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	16 What	discourse
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 lol	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 said	ccomp
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 What	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 view	det
19	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 view	amod
20	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	nsubj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	scientist		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	the snout bump	for bad scientist	tree rules
3	is a	present	the fair view		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

Saying we don't know is honest when clues are missing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 honest	csubj
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Saying	ccomp
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 honest	cop
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 missing	mark
9	clues	clue	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 missing	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 missing	cop
11	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 honest	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	present · do-support	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	Saying	honest property	tree rules
4	is	present	clues	missing property	tree rules

Option 2

A good scientist always knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 scientist	det
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scientist	amod
3	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 knows	advmod
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	a good scientist					always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They should just guess and say it is true, so people are happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 guess	advmod
4	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 guess	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 true	cop
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 say	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 happy	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 guess	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	guess	should	They		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	They not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	it	true property	tree rules
4	is	present	people	happy property	tree rules

Option 4

The bump never existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bump	det
2	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 existed	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 existed	advmod
4	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not exist	past	the bump						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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