Test 1 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

«big rock hits Mexico, how does that kill a T. rex in Canada lol» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big rock, that, best answer · What happens: hit, kill, be · To what, where: Mexico, T. rex, Canada · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 271 «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» 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 hits	punct
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hits	nsubj
4	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hits	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kill	punct
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 kill	advmod
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kill	aux
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 kill	nsubj
10	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hits	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rex	det
12	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rex	compound
13	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kill	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Canada	case
15	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rex	nmod
16	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 kill	discourse
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 hits	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hits	parataxis
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 What	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hit in a quote	present	big rock	Mexico		tree rules
2	kill in a quote	present · do-support	that	a T. rex	Canada	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rex=Theme
3	is a	present	the best answer			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 · ✓ the right answer

Dust and soot darkened the sky, so plants died and food chains collapsed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 darkened	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 soot	cc
3	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dust	conj
4	darkened	darken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 darkened	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 died	advmod
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 darkened	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 collapsed	cc
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chains	compound
13	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 collapsed	nsubj
14	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 died	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	darken	past	Dust and soot	the sky	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sky=Patient
2	die	past	plants		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	collapse	past	food chains		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It didn't, the T. rex in Canada survived and lived on for ages

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 did	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 survived	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rex	det
6	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	compound
7	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survived	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Canada	case
9	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rex	nmod
10	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 lived	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	not do	past	It		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	survive	past	the T. rex in Canada		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live on	past		for ages	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The rock bounced right across America and landed on it in Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 landed	nsubj
3	bounced	bounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 rock	acl
4	right	right	ADV	_	6 America	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	6 America	case
6	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bounced	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bounced	cc
8	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 landed	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 Canada	case
12	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 landed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	participle		the rock not said here		America			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across america=Trajectory
2	land	past	the rock			it		in Canada	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4

The rock was as wide as the whole Earth, so it hit everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rock	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wide	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wide	cop
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 wide	advmod
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Earth	amod
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wide	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hit	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 hit	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hit	nsubj
13	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wide	conj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rock					as the whole Earth; wide property	tree rules
2	hit	past	rock	everything					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme everything=Co-Theme

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