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Test 7 · Ancient times and famous stories

Lucy's cartoon shows a caveman riding a T. rex. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, caveman, Lucy · What happens: show, ride, cartoon, be · To what, where: caveman, T. rex

This is test 7 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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

Sentence 1: Lucy's cartoon shows a caveman riding a T. rex.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cartoon	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Lucy	case
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 caveman	det
6	caveman	caveman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
7	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 caveman	acl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rex	det
9	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rex	compound
10	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 riding	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Lucy's cartoon	a caveman					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caveman=Recipient
2	ride	gerund	a caveman not said here	a T. rex					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rex=Theme
3	cartoon		Lucy						nom cartoon «communication transitive»: poss=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cavemen rode the smaller dinosaurs, just never the big T. rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinosaurs	det
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 dinosaurs	amod
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rode	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rex	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 never	advmod
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 rex	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rex	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rex	amod
11	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rex	compound
12	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	Cavemen	the smaller dinosaurs				the big T. rex obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme

Option 2

T. rex lived in caves with humans

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 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 caves	case
5	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 humans	case
7	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	T. rex			caves		with humans	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 died	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 million	advmod
5	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 million	compound
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 humans	case
9	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	Dinosaurs				before humans; year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nothing, cartoons are always correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cartoons	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 correct	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 correct	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 correct	advmod
6	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing cartoons					always, correct 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.

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