Test 10 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

«stick insects on 1 rock, thought they were extinct, now zoos have thousands» What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stick insects, insects, zoos, thousands · What happens: think, be, have, happen · To what, where: thousands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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	_	3 insects	punct
2	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insects	compound
3	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thought	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rock	case
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 rock	nummod
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insects	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 insects	punct
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 extinct	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 extinct	cop
11	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 have	advmod
14	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 have	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 thousands	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happened	nsubj
19	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thousands	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other in a quote	past	stick insects on 1 rock				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	insects = insect			extinct property	tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	zoos	thousands	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
4	happen	past	thousands				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A few were found in 2001 and bred in zoos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 2001	case
6	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 found	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bred	cc
8	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 zoos	case
10	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bred	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a few		2001			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	breed	past				zoos			tree rules

Option 2

They were robots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 robots	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 robots	cop
3	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	robots					tree rules

Option 3

They flew back by themselves from another island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 flew	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 island	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 island	det
8	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	past	They			another island		by themselves = they	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location

Option 4

Scientists made them from fossils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 fossils	case
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Scientists	them = they		fossils			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset they=Product from fossil=Material

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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