Test 7 · Mammoths and the Ice Age giants: sabre-tooths, ground slot…

Why could scientists find milk inside baby Lyuba after thousands of years?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: find · To what, where: milk, baby

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 find	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 baby	case
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
8	Lyuba	Lyuba	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 baby	appos
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 thousands	case
10	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 years	case
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 thousands	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	scientists	milk		baby	after thousands of years		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Permafrost froze her quickly and kept her like a freezer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Permafrost	Permafrost	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 froze	nsubj
2	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 froze	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 froze	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 kept	cc
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 froze	conj
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kept	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 freezer	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 freezer	det
10	freezer	freezer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	Permafrost	her = she				quickly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient she=Result
2	keep	past	Permafrost not said here	Permafrost				like a freezer	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Milk never goes bad, however long it is kept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 goes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 long	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	present	Milk					bad, long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present · passive		Milk					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Someone found her and fed her milk later on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fed	cc
5	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 milk	nmod:poss
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fed	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	5 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Someone	her = she					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
2	feed	past	Someone not said here	her milk				late property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

Option 4

She was found inside an old fridge in a hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 fridge	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fridge	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fridge	amod
7	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hut	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hut	det
10	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		She		a old fridge		in a hut	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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