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title: «Stegosaurus had a brain in its bum to help it walk, read it in a bo… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Stegosaurus had a brain in its bum to help it walk, read it in a book» Is that right? Test 1 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 1 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

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«Stegosaurus had a brain in its bum to help it walk, read it in a book» Is that right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Stegosaurus, brain, that · **What happens:** have, help, walk, read, be · **To what, where:** brain, bum, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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/267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t1:1
# text = «Stegosaurus had a brain in its bum to help it walk, read it in a book» Is that right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Stegosaurus	Stegosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	csubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	bum	bum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
20	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Stegosaurus | a brain |  | brain's bum |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
| 2 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Stegosaurus *not said here* | brain |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** *in a quote* | infinitive | brain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **read** *in a quote* | infinitive | Stegosaurus *not said here* | brain |  | a book |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | 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, but only babies had it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, but only babies had it
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | babies | it |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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No, that is an old myth; the space held nerves and maybe stored energy

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t1:o2:1
# text = No, that is an old myth; the space held nerves and maybe stored energy
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
16	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | a old myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the space | nerves |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Theme |
| 3 | **store** | participle | the space *not said here* | energy |  |  |  | maybe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it had no brain at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t1:o3:1
# text = No, it had no brain at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | no brain |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it had two brains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, it had two brains
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | two brains |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |

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