Test 4 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

«T. rex vs Spinosaurus, who won the fight» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: T. rex · What happens: win, be · To what, where: fight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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	_	8 won	punct
2	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rex	compound
3	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 won	nsubj
4	vs	versus	ADP	Abbr=Yes	5 Spinosaurus	case
5	Spinosaurus	Spinosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rex	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 won	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 won	nsubj
8	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 true	csubj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fight	det
10	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 won	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 won	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 true	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 true	cop
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win in a quote	past	T. rex versus Spinosaurus	the fight					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality
2	is	present						true 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

They never met: different continents, millions of years apart

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 met	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 met	advmod
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 continents	punct
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 continents	amod
6	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 met	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 millions	punct
8	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 continents	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 millions	nmod
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 met	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	past	They	different continents and millions of years				apart property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They were best friends in the same swamp

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 friends	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 friends	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 swamp	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 swamp	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swamp	amod
8	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 friends	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	best friends		the same swamp			tree rules

Option 3

Spinosaurus won every time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinosaurus	Spinosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Spinosaurus				time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

T. rex won every time because it had the stronger bite of the two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rex	compound
2	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 won	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bite	det
10	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 bite	amod
11	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 two	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 two	det
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 bite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	T. rex				time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	rex	the stronger bite of the two					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient

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