Test 6 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

«Stegosaurus and T. rex were mates, saw it in a cartoon» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Stegosaurus, mates, cartoon · What happens: be, see · To what, where: mates, rex, cartoon

This is test 6 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	_	9 saw	punct
2	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mates	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rex	cc
4	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rex	compound
5	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stegosaurus	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mates	cop
7	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mates	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cartoon	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cartoon	det
13	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cartoon	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	13 cartoon	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Stegosaurus and T. rex	mates			tree rules
2	see in a quote	past	mates	rex	a cartoon		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	is	present	a cartoon			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

Stegosaurus came after T. rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	5 rex	case
4	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rex	compound
5	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Stegosaurus				after T. rex		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They lived at the same time and in the same place, just like the cartoon

The tree, 15 words

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	at	at	ADP	_	6 time	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 place	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cartoon	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 cartoon	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 cartoon	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cartoon	det
16	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They				time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stegosaurus lived longer before T. rex than T. rex lived before us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 lived	advmod
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 rex	case
5	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 rex	compound
6	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 lived	mark
8	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 rex	compound
9	rex	rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Stegosaurus			T. rex		long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rex=Location
2	live	past	T. rex				before us		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location

Option 4

They both lived only 1,000 years ago

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 lived	nsubj
2	both	both	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 1,000	advmod
5	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	They					ago, both property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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