Test 11 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

«shut up, the ocean dinos like plesiosaurs were the biggest dinosaurs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, ocean dinos · What happens: shut up, be · To what, where: biggest dinosaurs

This is test 11 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» 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	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dinosaurs	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinos	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dinos	compound
7	dinos	dino	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dinosaurs	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 plesiosaurs	case
9	plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dinos	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dinosaurs	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dinosaurs	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 dinosaurs	amod
13	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shut	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 dinosaurs	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shut	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	past	the ocean dinos like plesiosaurs	the biggest dinosaurs		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Plesiosaurs were sea reptiles, not dinosaurs; sauropods were the biggest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reptiles	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reptiles	cop
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reptiles	compound
4	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dinosaurs	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dinosaurs	advmod
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reptiles	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 sauropods	punct
9	sauropods	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 reptiles	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 biggest	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 biggest	det
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 reptiles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Plesiosaurs	sea reptiles and dinosaurs and sauropods					tree rules
2	is	past	Plesiosaurs not said here					big property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, plesiosaurs were the biggest dinosaurs, bigger than any on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 plesiosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	plesiosaurs	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dinosaurs	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dinosaurs	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 dinosaurs	amod
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bigger	punct
9	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 dinosaurs	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 any	case
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 bigger	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	plesiosaurs	the biggest dinosaurs					tree rules

Option 3

No, the biggest dinosaur was Velociraptor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 Velociraptor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinosaur	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 dinosaur	amod
5	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Velociraptor	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Velociraptor	cop
7	Velociraptor	Velociraptor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the biggest dinosaur	Velociraptor					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, all sea reptiles were dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 reptiles	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reptiles	compound
5	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dinosaurs	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dinosaurs	cop
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	all sea reptiles	dinosaurs					tree rules

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