Test 10 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

«it was the volcanoes in India, not some asteroid» What is the fairest answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it, fairest answer · What happens: be · To what, where: volcanoes, India

This is test 10 · ★★ 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	_	5 volcanoes	punct
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 volcanoes	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 volcanoes	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 volcanoes	det
5	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 India	case
7	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 volcanoes	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asteroid	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 asteroid	advmod
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 asteroid	det
11	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 volcanoes	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 asteroid	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 asteroid	appos
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 What	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 What	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 volcanoes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	it	the volcanoes and some asteroid		India			tree rules
2	is a	present	the fairest answer	the volcanoes and some asteroid					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

Yes, it was only the volcanoes; the asteroid story was made up for films

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 volcanoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 volcanoes	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 volcanoes	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 volcanoes	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 volcanoes	det
7	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	nsubj:pass
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 volcanoes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 story	det
10	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 story	compound
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 made	compound:prt
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 films	case
16	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the volcanoes					tree rules
2	make up	past · passive		the volcanoes				for films	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

Option 2

No, there were never any volcanoes in India at all, so it must be the asteroid

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 were	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 were	expl
4	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 volcanoes	advmod
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 volcanoes	det
7	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 were	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 India	case
9	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 volcanoes	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 India	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 asteroid	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 asteroid	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asteroid	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 asteroid	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 asteroid	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 asteroid	det
18	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 were	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	any volcanoes in India at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	must	it	the asteroid					tree rules

Option 3

Both are made up; the dinosaurs simply got old and tired and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 got	nsubj
8	simply	simply	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tired	cc
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 died	cc
14	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	present · passive		Both		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	get	past	the dinosaurs		old, simply property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	die	past	the dinosaurs not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

The volcanoes may have helped, but most scientists think the asteroid was the main killer

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 volcanoes	det
2	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 helped	nsubj:pass
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 helped	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	aux
5	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 think	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 think	cc
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 scientists	amod
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 helped	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 asteroid	det
12	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 killer	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 killer	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 killer	det
15	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 killer	amod
16	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	may · perfect · passive		the volcanoes	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	think speech: other	present	most scientists		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the asteroid	the main killer	tree rules

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