Test 1 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«Ice Age ends with mammoths still alive so they're still out there somewhere» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ice Age, mammoths · What happens: end, be

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 ends	punct
2	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Age	compound
3	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ends	nsubj
4	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 mammoths	case
6	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ends	obl
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 alive	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mammoths	amod
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 there	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 there	cop
12	still	still	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
13	out	out	ADV	_	14 there	advmod
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 ends	advmod
15	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 right	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 somewhere	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 there	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	end in a quote	present	Ice Age		with mammoths	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with mammoth=Subeventuality
2	is in a quote	present	mammoths = mammoth	still	out, there property	tree rules
3	is	present			right, somewhere property	tree rules

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

Option 1

Right, a few of them still hide in the snowy forests of Siberia, far from people

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 few	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hide	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 few	nmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 hide	advmod
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 forests	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forests	det
11	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forests	amod
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Siberia	case
14	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 forests	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 far	punct
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 hide	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 people	case
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 far	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	a few of them			the snowy forests of Siberia	still	far property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Most died out about 10,000 years ago and the last about 4,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 died	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 10,000	advmod
5	10,000	10000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ago	obl:unmarked
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 last	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 last	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 4,000	advmod
12	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ago	obl:unmarked
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	Most					ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Right, a few live in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 few	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 zoos	case
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	a few			zoos			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

Option 4

Right, they turned into elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 elephants	case
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	they					into elephants result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into elephant=Result

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