Test 11 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

Why does DART matter, even though it bumped a harmless asteroid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: DART, it · What happens: matter, bump · To what, where: harmless asteroid

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 matter	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	DART	DART	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 matter	nsubj
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bumped	punct
6	even	even	ADV	_	9 bumped	advmod
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	9 bumped	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bumped	nsubj
9	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 asteroid	det
11	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asteroid	amod
12	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bumped	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present · do-support	DART						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	bump	past	it	a harmless asteroid					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asteroid=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

It destroyed all the asteroids that could ever hit us

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 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 asteroids	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 asteroids	det
5	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 destroyed	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hit	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 hit	advmod
9	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 asteroids	acl:relcl
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	It	all asteroids					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument asteroid=Patient
2	hit	could	all asteroids	us			ever		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Co-Theme

Option 2

It took photos of dinosaur bones lying on the asteroid

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bones	case
5	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bones	compound
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 photos	nmod
7	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bones	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 asteroid	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 asteroid	det
10	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	It	photos of dinosaur bones					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme
2	lie	gerund	dinosaur bones not said here			the asteroid			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on asteroid=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It tested how to push a dangerous asteroid off course

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 tested	nsubj
2	tested	test	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 push	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 push	mark
5	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tested	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 asteroid	det
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 asteroid	amod
8	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	10 course	case
10	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	past	It						tree rules
2	push	to-infinitive		a dangerous asteroid		course			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent asteroid=Theme off course=Trajectory

Option 4

It brought back a big lump of gold from the asteroid

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 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 brought	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lump	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lump	amod
6	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lump	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 asteroid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 asteroid	det
11	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	It	a big lump of gold		the asteroid			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent lump=Theme from asteroid=Initial_Location

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