Test 13 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

a video said woolly mammoths were a kind of dinosaur. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: video, woolly mammoths · What happens: say, be · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mammoths	amod
5	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kind	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 kind	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dinosaur	case
10	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 kind	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	woolly mammoths	a kind				of dinosaur	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

Yes, mammoths were furry dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 mammoths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dinosaurs	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dinosaurs	cop
5	furry	furry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinosaurs	amod
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mammoths	furry dinosaurs					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, they lived alongside T. rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	alongside	alongside	ADP	_	7 rex	case
6	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	compound
7	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they			T. rex			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside rex=Location

Option 3

No, mammoths lived before the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mammoths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 dinosaurs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	mammoths				before the dinosaurs		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dinosaur=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, mammoths lived in the last Ice Age, long after the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mammoths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 Age	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Age	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Age	amod
8	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Age	compound
9	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lived	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 dinosaurs	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dinosaurs	det
14	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	mammoths				in the last Ice Age; after the dinosaurs	long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location

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