Test 1 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago
A film shows cave people running from a Tyrannosaurus. What is wrong with it?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film, cave people · What happens: show, run, be · To what, where: cave people, Tyrannosaurus
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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: A film shows cave people running from a Tyrannosaurus.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 people | compound |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 people | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Tyrannosaurus | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Tyrannosaurus | det |
| 9 | Tyrannosaurus | Tyrannosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 running | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a film | cave people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | cave people not said here | a Tyrannosaurus | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tyrannosaurus=Trajectory |
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 with it?
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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrong | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | with Tyrannosaurus; wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Tyrannosaurus could not run
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyrannosaurus | Tyrannosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run | could | Tyrannosaurus | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Tyrannosaurus only ate plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyrannosaurus | Tyrannosaurus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 ate | advmod |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ate | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | Tyrannosaurus | plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient |
Option 3
Cave people lived on the Earth long before the dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | compound |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Earth | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Earth | det |
| 6 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 lived | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 dinosaurs | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dinosaurs | det |
| 10 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Cave people | the Earth | before the dinosaurs | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Humans and dinosaurs never lived at the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dinosaurs | cc |
| 3 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Humans | conj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past | Humans and dinosaurs | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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