Test 3 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

«Bigfoot's real, that giant ape is just hiding» What would you need before believing it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant ape, you · What happens: hide, need, believe · To what, where: ape

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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	_	4 real	punct
2	Bigfoot	Bigfoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 real	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Bigfoot	case
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hiding	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 ape	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ape	amod
8	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hiding	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 hiding	advmod
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 real	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 hiding	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 need	obj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 need	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 need	nsubj
16	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 believing	mark
18	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 need	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 believing	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hide in a quote	present · progressive	that giant ape		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	need	would	you		tree rules
3	believe not said to happen	gerund	you not said here	ape	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

A big footprint in mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 footprint	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 footprint	amod
3	footprint	footprint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 footprint	nmod

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

Option 2

A story you heard twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 story	acl:relcl
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	you	a story not said here				twice property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Real bones, bodies or clear tested evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bones	amod
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bodies	punct
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bones	conj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 evidence	cc
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evidence	amod
7	tested	test	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 evidence	amod
8	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	participle							vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One blurry video from a mate that went viral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 video	nummod
2	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 video	amod
3	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mate	det
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 video	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	viral	viral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	One blurry video from a mate					viral property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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