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title: a video said woolly mammoths were a kind of dinosaur. right? — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics
description: a video said woolly mammoths were a kind of dinosaur. right? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world 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 13 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

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a video said woolly mammoths were a kind of dinosaur. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** video, woolly mammoths · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** kind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» of the world 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/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t13:1
# text = a video said woolly mammoths were a kind of dinosaur. right?
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a video |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | woolly mammoths | a kind |  |  |  | of dinosaur | 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, mammoths were furry dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, mammoths were furry dinosaurs
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	furry	furry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | mammoths | furry dinosaurs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, they lived alongside T. rex

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, they lived alongside T. rex
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	alongside	alongside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	T.	T.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	rex	rex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | they |  |  | T. rex |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme alongside rex=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, mammoths lived before the dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t13:o3:1
# text = No, mammoths lived before the dinosaurs
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | mammoths |  |  |  | before the dinosaurs |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dinosaur=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, mammoths lived in the last Ice Age, long after the dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t13:o4:1
# text = No, mammoths lived in the last Ice Age, long after the dinosaurs
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | mammoths |  |  |  | in the last Ice Age; after the dinosaurs | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in age=Location |

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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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