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title: What would happen if an Allosaurus grabbed an Ankylosaurus from the… — Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Trice… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if an Allosaurus grabbed an Ankylosaurus from the side? Test 5 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 question and of e
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# Test 5 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

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What would happen if an Allosaurus grabbed an Ankylosaurus from the side?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Allosaurus · **What happens:** happen, grab · **To what, where:** Ankylosaurus, side

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t5:1
# text = What would happen if an Allosaurus grabbed an Ankylosaurus from the side?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Allosaurus	Allosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grab** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a Allosaurus | a Ankylosaurus |  | the side |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ankylosaurus=Theme from side=Source |

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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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It would easily bite through the armour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t5:o1:1
# text = It would easily bite through the armour
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | would | It |  |  | the armour |  | easily *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through armour=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It might get its leg broken by the tail club

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t5:o2:1
# text = It might get its leg broken by the tail club
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	club	club	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | might | It | its leg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | participle | its leg *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the tail club | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by club=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The Ankylosaurus would turn into a ball and roll away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t5:o3:1
# text = The Ankylosaurus would turn into a ball and roll away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the Ankylosaurus |  |  | a ball |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ball=Trajectory |
| 2 | **roll away** | infinitive | the Ankylosaurus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The Ankylosaurus would fly away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:267-horns-frills-plates-and-clubs:t5:o4:1
# text = The Ankylosaurus would fly away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | would | the Ankylosaurus |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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