Test 12 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

Mia says cavemen used to ride dinosaurs. true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia, cavemen · What happens: say, use, ride · To what, where: dinosaurs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ride	mark
6	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ride	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
9	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use	past	cavemen		true property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride	to-infinitive	cavemen not said here	dinosaurs		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme

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

Yes, early people tamed the small dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 early	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tamed	nsubj
5	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinosaurs	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dinosaurs	amod
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	past	early people	the small dinosaurs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, people never lived at the same time as dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	nsubj
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
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 dinosaurs	case
11	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	past	people				time	as dinosaurs	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, dinosaurs lived long after the first people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	dinosaurs				after the first people	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but only the dinosaurs that ate plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dinosaurs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 dinosaurs	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinosaurs	det
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 ate	nsubj
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dinosaurs	acl:relcl
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the dinosaurs	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

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