Test 8 · Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs a…

Why was Mary Anning given little credit in her own time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mary · What happens: be, give · To what, where: little credit

This is test 8 of lesson 270 «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
4	Anning	Anning	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	flat
5	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Mary	acl
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 credit	amod
7	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 time	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 given	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mary					why property	tree rules
2	give	participle	Mary not said here	little credit			time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=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

Scientists of her time gave little credit to a working woman without a university

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gave	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 time	nmod:poss
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scientists	nmod
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 credit	amod
7	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 woman	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl
12	without	without	ADP	_	14 university	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 university	det
14	university	university	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	Scientists of her time	little credit	a working woman			without a university	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credit=Theme to woman=Recipient
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

She hid all her fossils away and never let anyone see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fossils	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fossils	nmod:poss
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 hid	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 let	cc
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 let	advmod
9	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hid	conj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 let	obj
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 let	xcomp
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	past	She	her fossils	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Patient
2	not let	infinitive	She not said here	anyone		tree rules
3	see	infinitive	anyone not said here	fossils = fossil		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3

She was too young to dig, so her brother did all of the work

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 dig	mark
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 young	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 did	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brother	nmod:poss
10	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 did	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 work	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	She		young property	tree rules
2	dig	to-infinitive	She not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past	her brother	all		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality

Option 4

She found nothing important, only a few small shells that anyone could pick up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 found	obj
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shells	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 shells	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shells	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shells	amod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shells	amod
10	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 pick	obj
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 pick	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pick	aux
14	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 shells	acl:relcl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	She	nothing				a few small shells obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	pick up	could	anyone	a few small shells					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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