Exam question 3 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived
Identify the defensive structure situated at the terminus of the tail of Ankylosaurus.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, situate · To what, where: defensive structure, terminus
This is exam question 3 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 structure | det |
| 3 | defensive | defensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 structure | amod |
| 4 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 structure | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 terminus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 terminus | det |
| 8 | terminus | terminus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 situated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tail | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tail | det |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terminus | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Ankylosaurus | case |
| 13 | Ankylosaurus | Ankylosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tail | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the defensive structure | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent structure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | situate | participle | the defensive structure not said here | the terminus of the tail of Ankylosaurus | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at terminus=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four elongated spikes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 spikes | nummod |
| 2 | elongated | elongate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spikes | amod |
| 3 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elongate | participle | tree rules |
Option 2
A fan of long feathers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fan | det |
| 2 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 feathers | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feathers | amod |
| 5 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fan | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A heavy bony club
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 club | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 club | amod |
| 3 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 club | amod |
| 4 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A tall sail of skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sail | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sail | amod |
| 3 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 skin | case |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sail | nmod |
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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