Test 2 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago
A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. What did the animal probably eat?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fossil skull, animal · What happens: have, wear, do, eat · To what, where: wide flat teeth, animal
This is test 2 · ★ 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 fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 skull | det |
| 2 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skull | compound |
| 3 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teeth | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wide | punct |
| 7 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teeth | amod |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 teeth | acl |
| 10 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 worn | xcomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a fossil skull | wide flat teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wear | participle | wide flat teeth not said here | smooth property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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 did the animal probably eat?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 6 eat | advmod |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 animal | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the animal | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | the animal not said here | probably property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Other dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dinosaurs | amod |
| 2 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Tough plants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plants | amod |
| 2 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Insects caught in flight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Insects | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 flight | case |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | Insects not said here | flight | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Small fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fish | amod |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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