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title: Which is true? — Dinosaurs and life long ago · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true? Test 4 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

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Which is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t4:1
# text = Which is true?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	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 |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Mammoths were a kind of dinosaur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t4:o1:1
# text = Mammoths were a kind of dinosaur
1	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Mammoths | a kind |  |  |  | of dinosaur | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A lizard is a baby dinosaur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t4:o2:1
# text = A lizard is a baby dinosaur
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dinosaur	dinosaur	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** | present | a lizard | a baby dinosaur |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dinosaurs still live hidden away in deep jungles today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t4:o3:1
# text = Dinosaurs still live hidden away in deep jungles today
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	jungles	jungle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Dinosaurs |  |  | deep jungles | still; today | away *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location |
| 2 | **hide away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A sparrow is a living relative of the dinosaurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago:t4:o4:1
# text = A sparrow is a living relative of the dinosaurs
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a sparrow | a living relative |  |  |  | of the dinosaurs | 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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