Exam question 1 · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived
Identify the location of the impact which is understood to have caused the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, understand, cause, extinguish · To what, where: location, impact, extinction, non-bird dinosaurs
This is exam question 1 of lesson 271 «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 impact | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 impact | det |
| 6 | impact | impact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 location | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 understood | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 understood | aux:pass |
| 9 | understood | understand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 impact | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 caused | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 caused | aux |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 understood | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 extinction | det |
| 14 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 dinosaurs | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dinosaurs | det |
| 17 | non-bird | non-bird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dinosaurs | amod |
| 18 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 extinction | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the location of the impact | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme | ||||
| 2 | understand | present · passive | the impact | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cause | to-infinitive · perfect | the extinction of the non-bird dinosaurs | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition extinction=Patient | |||||
| 4 | extinguish | the non-bird dinosaurs | nom extinction «state transitive»: of=patient |
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 Sahara desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 desert | det |
| 2 | Sahara | Sahara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 desert | compound |
| 3 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The interior of Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 interior | det |
| 2 | interior | interior | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Australia | case |
| 4 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 interior | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Chicxulub site in Mexico
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 site | det |
| 2 | Chicxulub | Chicxulub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 site | compound |
| 3 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Mexico | case |
| 5 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 site | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The North Pole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pole | det |
| 2 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pole | compound |
| 3 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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