Test 2 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

«the mammoths all died with the dinos, right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mammoths · What happens: die, be

This is test 2 of lesson 272 «Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground sloths and woolly rhinos» 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	_	5 died	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mammoths	det
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 dinos	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinos	det
8	dinos	dino	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
10	right	right	ADV	_	14 right	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 right	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 died	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	the mammoths					with the dinos; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they all died 66 million years ago with T. rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 died	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 died	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 rex	case
11	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 rex	compound
12	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	they					with T. rex; ago, all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

No, they are still alive in the far north of Canada

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 alive	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 alive	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 alive	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 alive	advmod
6	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 north	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 north	det
9	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 north	amod
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 alive	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Canada	case
12	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 north	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they			the far north of Canada	still	alive property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the last mammoths lived about 4,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mammoths	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mammoths	amod
5	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 4,000	advmod
8	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ago	obl:unmarked
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the last mammoths					ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, because mammoths were dinosaurs with fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dinosaurs	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 dinosaurs	mark
4	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dinosaurs	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dinosaurs	cop
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 fur	case
8	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dinosaurs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	mammoths	dinosaurs				with fur	tree rules

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