Test 8 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

Why were small seed-eaters and burrowers more likely to survive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: small seed eaters · What happens: be, survive

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	10 likely	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 likely	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eaters	amod
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaters	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 seed	punct
6	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 likely	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burrowers	cc
8	burrowers	burrower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eaters	conj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 likely	advmod
10	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 survive	mark
12	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 likely	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	small seed eaters and burrowers					likely property	tree rules
2	survive	to-infinitive	small seed eaters and burrowers not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

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

They could hide and live on seeds and dead things while plants were gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hide	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 live	cc
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hide	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 seeds	case
7	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 things	cc
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seeds	conj
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 gone	mark
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gone	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	aux:pass
14	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 live	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hide	could	They			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	infinitive	They not said here		seeds and dead things	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seed=Location
3	go	past · passive		plants		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

They were much stronger and tougher than the big dinosaurs ever were

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stronger	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 stronger	advmod
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tougher	cc
6	tougher	tough	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stronger	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 dinosaurs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dinosaurs	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dinosaurs	amod
10	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stronger	obl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 dinosaurs	advmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					than the big dinosaurs; strong property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

Option 3

They could not catch any illness, so nothing at all could harm them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 catch	advmod
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 illness	det
6	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 harm	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 harm	advmod
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 harm	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 nothing	nmod
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 harm	aux
13	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catch	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	could	They	any illness					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Theme
2	harm	could	nothing	them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 4

They could fly away to another planet until the dust had cleared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 planet	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 planet	det
7	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 cleared	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dust	det
10	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cleared	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cleared	aux
12	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	could	They					to another planet result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to planet=Result
2	clear	past · perfect · passive		the dust					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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