Test 7 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

«are we gonna get smashed by an asteroid next year??» What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: asteroid · What happens: smash, be · To what, where: we

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: «are we gonna get smashed by an asteroid next year??»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smashed	aux:pass
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 smashed	nsubj
4	gonna	gonna	PART	_	6 smashed	mark
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 smashed	aux:pass
6	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 asteroid	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 asteroid	det
9	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 smashed	obl
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asteroid	nmod:unmarked
12	??	??	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash in a quote	present · passive	a asteroid next year	we					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Scientists track big ones, and no known large one will hit for a hundred years

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 track	nsubj
2	track	track	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 track	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hit	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hit	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 one	amod
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hit	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hit	aux
12	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 track	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hundred	det
15	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	track	present	Scientists	big ones		vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	know	participle				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hit	future	no known large one		year	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Asteroids never come anywhere near Earth, so there is nothing to fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 come	advmod
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 come	advmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 is	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 is	advmod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 is	expl
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	parataxis
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 is	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fear	mark
13	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not come	present	Asteroids	Earth	anywhere property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near earth=Location
2	be	present	nothing	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fear	to-infinitive	nothing not said here			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nobody watches the sky at all, so we would never know until it hit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 watches	nsubj
2	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 watches	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 watches	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 know	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 know	advmod
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 know	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 know	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 know	advmod
12	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 watches	parataxis
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 hit	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hit	nsubj
15	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	watch	present	Nobody	the sky	all	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sky=Theme
2	not know	would	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hit	past	sky			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, a huge one is already coming next week and nobody can do anything

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 coming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 week	amod
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 do	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 coming	conj
15	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	14 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	a huge one				week		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	can	nobody	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

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