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Test 8 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

Your little sister says the Gryphon is real because she saw one carved on an old building. What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little sister, Gryphon, sister · What happens: say, be, see, carve · To what, where: one, old building · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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

Sentence 1: Your little sister says the Gryphon is real because she saw one carved on an old building.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Gryphon	det
6	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 real	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 saw	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 real	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 saw	obj
13	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 one	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 building	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 building	det
16	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 building	amod
17	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 carved	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your little sister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the Gryphon					real property	tree rules
3	see	past	sister	one					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	carve	participle				a old building			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on building=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

They were dinosaurs that died out with the others

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	3 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dinosaurs	cop
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dinosaurs	acl:relcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 died	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 others	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	dinosaurs					tree rules
2	die out	past	dinosaurs					with the others	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They are a kind of eagle still found in the mountains

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 kind	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres 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	_	6 eagle	case
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 kind	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 mountains	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mountains	det
11	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	a kind				of eagle	tree rules
2	find	participle		a kind not said here		the mountains	still		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Griffins are legends; people carved them, but none ever lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Griffins	griffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 legends	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 legends	cop
3	legends	legend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 carved	punct
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 carved	nsubj
6	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 legends	acl:relcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carved	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
10	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 lived	nsubj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 carved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Griffins	legends					tree rules
2	carve	past	people	Griffins = griffin					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	live	past	none				ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They lived in Greece until the Romans hunted them all

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	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Greece	case
4	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 hunted	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Romans	det
7	Romans	Roman	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 hunted	nsubj
8	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hunted	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They			Greece			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location
2	hunt	past	the Romans	them = they					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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