Test 5 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

«were the pyramids built before the last mammoth died» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: pyramids · What happens: be, build, die · To what, where: pyramids

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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 pyramids	punct
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pyramids	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pyramids	det
4	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 died	nsubj
5	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pyramids	acl
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 mammoth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mammoth	det
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mammoth	amod
9	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 built	obl
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 died	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past		the pyramids			tree rules
2	build in a quote	participle		the pyramids not said here	before the last mammoth		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	die in a quote	past	the pyramids				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	present				right 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

No, pyramids are only 100 years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 old	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 100	advmod
6	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 old	obl:unmarked
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	pyramids				year	old property	tree rules

Option 2

No, mammoths died out millions of years before anybody built anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mammoths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 built	mark
10	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 built	nsubj
11	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	advcl
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 built	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 anything	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	mammoths	millions of years					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	build	past	anybody	anything		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Product

Option 3

No, mammoths lived after people left Egypt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mammoths	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 left	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	advcl
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	mammoths						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	people	Egypt					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egypt=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, the last mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were being built

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mammoths	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mammoths	amod
5	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 alive	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 alive	cop
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 alive	advmod
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 built	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pyramids	det
11	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 built	aux:pass
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 built	aux:pass
14	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 alive	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the last mammoths				still	alive property	tree rules
2	build	past · passive		the pyramids					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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