Test 4 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago
Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Mammoths were a kind of dinosaur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mammoths | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dinosaur | case |
| 6 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mammoths | a kind | of dinosaur | tree rules |
Option 2
A lizard is a baby dinosaur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lizard | det |
| 2 | lizard | lizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dinosaur | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dinosaur | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 dinosaur | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dinosaur | compound |
| 6 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a lizard | a baby dinosaur | tree rules |
Option 3
Dinosaurs still live hidden away in deep jungles today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 away | amod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 live | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 jungles | case |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jungles | amod |
| 8 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 9 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Dinosaurs | deep jungles | still; today | away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location | ||
| 2 | hide away | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A sparrow is a living relative of the dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sparrow | det |
| 2 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relative | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 relative | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 relative | det |
| 5 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relative | compound |
| 6 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dinosaurs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dinosaurs | det |
| 9 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 relative | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sparrow | a living relative | of the dinosaurs | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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