Test 1 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

«sea cows are just cows that swim lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea cows, cows · What happens: be, swim · To what, where: cows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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 cows	punct
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cows	compound
3	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cows	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 cows	advmod
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 swim	nsubj
8	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	acl:relcl
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 swim	discourse
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 swim	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swim	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	sea cows	cows		tree rules
2	swim in a quote	present	cows			tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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

It was a kind of whale shark

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 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 shark	case
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	compound
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a kind				of whale shark	tree rules

Option 2

It was a big seal

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	5 seal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 seal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seal	amod
5	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a big seal					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was a huge sea animal related to manatees, not a cow

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	6 animal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	compound
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 animal	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 manatees	case
9	manatees	manatee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 related	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cow	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 cow	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cow	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a huge sea animal and a cow					tree rules
2	relate	participle		a huge sea animal and a cow not said here				to manatees	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to manatee=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they were farm cows that learned to swim in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 cows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cows	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	cop
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cows	compound
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 learned	nsubj
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cows	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 swim	mark
10	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 learned	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	they	farm cows		tree rules
2	learn	past	farm cows			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	to-infinitive	farm cows not said here		the sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

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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