Test 3 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

«a shooting star!! is it gonna hit us and kill us like the dinos» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shooting star · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	_	9 hit	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 star	det
3	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 star	compound
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hit	nsubj
5	!!	!!	PUNCT	_	4 star	punct
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	cop
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 hit	dep
9	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 hit	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 kill	cc
12	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hit	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 dinos	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dinos	det
16	dinos	dino	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 kill	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 right	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 right	cop
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hit	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a shooting star		hit property	tree rules
2	kill in a quote	infinitive	a shooting star not said here	us	like the dinos	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
3	is	present			right property	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, every shooting star hits the ground somewhere near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 star	det
4	shooting	shooting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 star	compound
5	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	nsubj
6	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hits	obj
9	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 near	advmod
10	near	near	ADV	_	6 hits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	every shooting star	the ground				near property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yes, that is just how the dinosaurs saw theirs coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 how	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 how	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 how	advmod
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinosaurs	det
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 saw	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	that		how property	tree rules
2	see	past	the dinosaurs	theirs = they		tree rules
3	come	gerund	theirs = they not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

No, it is a star moving house to another part of the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 star	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 star	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 star	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 star	acl
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moving	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 part	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 part	det
11	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 moving	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sky	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a star					tree rules
2	move	gerund	a star not said here	house		another part of the sky			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme to part=Trajectory

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

No, it is a speck of dust burning up high in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 speck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speck	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speck	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speck	det
6	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speck	nmod
9	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 speck	acl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 burning	compound:prt
11	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 burning	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a speck				of dust	tree rules
2	burn up	gerund	a speck not said here			the air		high property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location

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