Test 6 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

What would a palaeontologist need to find out what a dinosaur ate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: palaeontologist · What happens: need, find out

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 need	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 palaeontologist	det
4	palaeontologist	palaeontologist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 find	compound:prt
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 find	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ate	det
11	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	compound
12	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	a palaeontologist						tree rules
2	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	a palaeontologist not said here						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its teeth or fossil droppings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 droppings	cc
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 droppings	compound
5	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teeth	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The colour and pattern of its skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pattern	cc
4	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 skin	nmod:poss
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Its name written in an old book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	nsubj:pass
3	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 book	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 book	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 book	amod
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 written	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle · passive		Its name		a old book			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination
2	name		Its = it						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

The sound it made when it roared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 roared	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 roared	nsubj
7	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sound						tree rules
2	roar	past	sound						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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