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title: «mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is… — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: «mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is right? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

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«mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** mammoths · **What happens:** fight, be · **To what, where:** each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t2:1
# text = «mammoths and dinosaurs fought each other, like in cartoons» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	5	obj	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** *in a quote* | past | mammoths and dinosaurs | each |  |  |  | like cartoons | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, in the Ice Age

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t2:o1:1
# text = Yes, in the Ice Age
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, but only the biggest dinosaurs, which liked to hunt the baby mammoths

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, but only the biggest dinosaurs, which liked to hunt the baby mammoths
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **like** | past | the biggest dinosaurs |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the biggest dinosaurs *not said here* | the baby mammoths |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, dinosaurs died out over 60 million years before mammoths lived

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t2:o3:1
# text = No, dinosaurs died out over 60 million years before mammoths lived
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | past | dinosaurs |  |  |  | year |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **live** | past | mammoths |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, all the time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t2:o4:1
# text = Yes, all the time
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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**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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