Test 7 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

Why might a huge sauropod want to stand still while eating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: huge sauropod · What happens: want, stand, eat

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sauropod	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sauropod	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sauropod	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sauropod	amod
5	sauropod	sauropod	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stand	mark
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 stand	advmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 eating	mark
11	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stand	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	want	present	a huge sauropod		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	stand not said to happen	to-infinitive	a huge sauropod not said here	still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	a huge sauropod not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Its neck fell off if it walked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 neck	nmod:poss
2	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 walked	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 walked	nsubj
7	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	Its neck						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	neck						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It could only eat with its legs locked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 legs	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 legs	nmod:poss
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obl
8	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eat	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	It					with its legs	tree rules
2	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It was too lazy to walk anywhere once it had found food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	advcl
7	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 walk	advmod
8	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 walk	advcl
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	to-infinitive						anywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · perfect · passive		it					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme food=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Moving such a heavy body costs a lot of energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 costs	csubj
2	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	5 body	det:predet
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 body	det
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 body	amod
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obj
6	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 costs	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 energy	case
10	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lot	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund		such heavy body					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme
2	cost	present	Moving	a lot of energy					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme lot=Value

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