Test 9 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

Which living reptile would you call a giant today?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: living reptile · What happens: call · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 call	obj
2	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reptile	amod
3	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 call	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 call	nsubj
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 today	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 today	amod
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 call	obl:unmarked
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	would	living reptile				today		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient

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

A grass snake that is longer than your arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snake	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snake	compound
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 longer	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 longer	cop
6	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a grass snake					than your arm; long property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A saltwater crocodile, up to about 6 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crocodile	det
2	saltwater	saltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crocodile	compound
3	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 metres	punct
5	up	up	ADV	_	8 6	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 up	fixed
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 6	advmod
8	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 metres	nummod
9	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crocodile	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A pet tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tortoise	det
2	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tortoise	compound
3	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A garden lizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lizard	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lizard	compound
3	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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