--- title: A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. What did the animal… — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics description: A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. What did the animal probably eat? Test 2 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Dinosaurs and life long ago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. What did the animal probably eat? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fossil skull, animal · **What happens:** have, wear, do, eat · **To what, where:** wide flat teeth, animal This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:1 # text = A fossil skull has wide, flat teeth worn smooth. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fossil fossil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 skull skull NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 9 worn wear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a fossil skull | wide flat teeth | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | | 2 | **wear** | participle | | wide flat teeth *not said here* | | | | smooth *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | 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 did the animal probably eat? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:2 # text = What did the animal probably eat? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 probably probably ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the animal | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Eventuality | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | the animal *not said here* | | | | | probably *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Other dinosaurs ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:o1:1 # text = Other dinosaurs 1 Other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Tough plants ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:o2:1 # text = Tough plants 1 Tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Insects caught in flight ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:o3:1 # text = Insects caught in flight 1 Insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 caught catch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 acl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | participle | | Insects *not said here* | | flight | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 {#o4} Small fish ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t2:o4:1 # text = Small fish 1 Small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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