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title: «Utahraptor was tiny like Velociraptor yeah?» What is true? — Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Utahraptor was tiny like Velociraptor yeah?» What is true? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 268 «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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 righ
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film m…

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«Utahraptor was tiny like Velociraptor yeah?» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Utahraptor · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 268 «Raptors: the real Velociraptor, claws, feathers and film mistakes» 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/268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «Utahraptor was tiny like Velociraptor yeah?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:1
# text = «Utahraptor was tiny like Velociraptor yeah?»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Utahraptor	Utahraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Velociraptor	Velociraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Utahraptor |  |  |  |  | like Velociraptor; tiny *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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, both were turkey-sized

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:o1:1
# text = Yes, both were turkey-sized
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **size** | past · passive |  | both |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, Utahraptor was a sea monster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:o2:1
# text = No, Utahraptor was a sea monster
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Utahraptor	Utahraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Utahraptor | a sea monster |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, Utahraptor was even smaller than that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:o3:1
# text = Yes, Utahraptor was even smaller than that
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Utahraptor	Utahraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Utahraptor |  |  |  |  | than that; small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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No, Utahraptor was about 6 metres long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:268-raptors-the-real-velociraptor:t8:o4:1
# text = No, Utahraptor was about 6 metres long
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Utahraptor	Utahraptor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Utahraptor |  |  |  |  | 6 metres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules |

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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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