Test 7 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

«big animals are best, they win everything» What problem does a giant body bring?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big animals, animals · What happens: be, win, bring · To what, where: everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	5 best	punct
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 best	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 best	cop
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 win	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 win	nsubj
8	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	advcl
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 win	obj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 win	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 does	obj
12	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 does	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 body	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 body	amod
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 does	obj
17	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 best	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	big animals		good property	tree rules
2	win in a quote	present	animals = animal	everything		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
3	bring	present · do-support				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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.

The options

Option 1

It cannot keep warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	can	It					warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every predator can catch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 predator	det
2	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	every predator	it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It needs huge amounts of food every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 amounts	amod
4	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needs	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 amounts	nmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	It	huge amounts of food			day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot amount=Theme
2	amount			food					nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

It cannot eat twigs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	can	It	twigs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twig=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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