Test 6 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Amir: "T. rex closer to us than to Stegosaurus? Skibidi nonsense!" (He means rubbish.) Check with numbers.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rex, you · What happens: mean, check · To what, where: rubbish
This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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: Amir: "T. rex closer to us than to Stegosaurus?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amir | amir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 closer | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 closer | punct |
| 4 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rex | compound |
| 5 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | nsubj |
| 6 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 us | case |
| 8 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 closer | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 Stegosaurus | case |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Stegosaurus | case |
| 11 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 closer | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 closer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Skibidi nonsense!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skibidi | Skibidi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nonsense | compound |
| 2 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 nonsense | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 nonsense | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 3: (He means rubbish.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | obj |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | rex | rubbish | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Topic |
Sentence 4: Check with numbers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 numbers | case |
| 3 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Check | obl |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Check | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | with numbers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
They lived at the same time, so it is nonsense
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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nonsense | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 nonsense | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 nonsense | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nonsense | cop |
| 11 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| # | 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 | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | nonsense | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
T. rex lived 150 million years ago, before Stegosaurus
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 | 150 | 150 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 million | compound |
| 5 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stegosaurus | punct |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 Stegosaurus | case |
| 10 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | T. rex | Stegosaurus | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before stegosaurus=Location |
Option 3
Stegosaurus lived just 1,000 years before T. rex
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 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 1,000 | advmod |
| 4 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 rex | case |
| 7 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rex | compound |
| 8 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Stegosaurus | T. rex | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before rex=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 83 million years from Stegosaurus to T. rex, about 66 million from T. rex to us
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 83 | 83 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rex | nsubj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Stegosaurus | case |
| 6 | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 years | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rex | case |
| 8 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rex | compound |
| 9 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 million | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 million | advmod |
| 12 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 million | compound |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 rex | nmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rex | case |
| 15 | T. | T. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rex | compound |
| 16 | rex | rex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 million | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 us | case |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 million | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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