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What could the real biggest ones be? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** sea scorpion This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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/273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A cartoon shows a sea scorpion the size of a beetle. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:1 # text = A cartoon shows a sea scorpion the size of a beetle. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 beetle beetle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a cartoon | | a sea scorpion | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scorpion=Recipient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What could the real biggest ones be? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:2 # text = What could the real biggest ones be? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 1 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nsubj _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} As big as a blue whale ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:o1:1 # text = As big as a blue whale 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} As big as an island ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:o2:1 # text = As big as an island 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Smaller than an ant ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:o3:1 # text = Smaller than an ant 1 Smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Longer than a man ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:273-megalodon-and-the-giants-of-the-sea:t10:o4:1 # text = Longer than a man 1 Longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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