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Test 9 · ★★ · The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived

A scientist finds the same thin clay layer in Italy and in New Zealand. What does it tell her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist · What happens: find, tell · To what, where: same thin clay layer, Italy, Zealand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: A scientist finds the same thin clay layer in Italy and in New Zealand.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 scientist	det
2	scientist	scientist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	nsubj
3	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 layer	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 layer	amod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 layer	amod
7	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 layer	compound
8	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 finds	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Italy	case
10	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 layer	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Zealand	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 Zealand	case
13	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Zealand	flat
14	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Italy	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 finds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	a scientist	the same thin clay layer		Italy and New Zealand			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=Topic

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 does it tell her?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	scientist		Zealand				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The disaster reached the whole world at the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disaster	det
2	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 world	amod
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reached	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the disaster	the whole world			time		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent world=Theme

Option 2

The clay was carried there by dinosaurs on their feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clay	det
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carried	aux:pass
4	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 carried	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 dinosaurs	case
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · passive	dinosaurs	the clay		dinosaurs's feet; there			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Two small asteroids hit those two places and nowhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 asteroids	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asteroids	amod
3	asteroids	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 places	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 places	nummod
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nowhere	cc
9	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 hit	advmod
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 nowhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	Two small asteroids	that two places				nowhere property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Co-Theme

Option 4

Clay always forms in Italy and floats over to New Zealand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forms	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 forms	advmod
3	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Italy	case
5	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 forms	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 floats	cc
7	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forms	conj
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 floats	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Zealand	case
10	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Zealand	flat
11	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Clay			Italy		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in italy=Location
2	float over	present	Clay not said here		New Zealand			over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to zealand=Result

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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