Test 8 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

«all dinosaurs were massive, end of» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dinosaurs · What happens: be

This is test 8 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	_	5 massive	punct
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dinosaurs	det
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 massive	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 massive	cop
5	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 massive	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 What	case
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 end	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 What	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 massive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	all dinosaurs					massive property	tree rules
2	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 · ✓ the right answer

Many were small, like the chicken-sized Compsognathus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Compsognathus	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	10 Compsognathus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Compsognathus	det
7	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sized	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 chicken	punct
9	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Compsognathus	amod
10	Compsognathus	compsognathus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Many					like the sized Compsognathus; small property	tree rules
2	size	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, the smallest dinosaur was about the size of an elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 size	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinosaur	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 dinosaur	amod
5	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 size	cop
7	about	about	ADV	_	9 size	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 elephant	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 elephant	det
12	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the smallest dinosaur	the size				of a elephant; about property	tree rules

Option 3

No, all dinosaurs were tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dinosaurs	det
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tiny	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, every dinosaur was longer than a bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 longer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 longer	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dinosaur	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 longer	cop
6	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 bus	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bus	det
9	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every dinosaur					than a bus; long property	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/75-dinosaurs-kinds-sizes-and-lives/t8/