Test 5 · ★ · Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present

«coelacanth was extinct and then came back to life, that's magic» What is better?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: coelacanth, that · What happens: be, come back · To what, where: life

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 273 «Megalodon and the giants of the sea, past and present» 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	_	4 extinct	punct
2	coelacanth	coelacanth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 extinct	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	cop
4	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 came	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 extinct	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 life	case
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 magic	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 magic	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 magic	cop
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 extinct	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 magic	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 better	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 better	cop
18	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 extinct	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 extinct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	coelacanth			extinct property	tree rules
2	come back in a quote	past	coelacanth not said here	life	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	that			magic property	tree rules
4	is	present				good 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 · ✓ the right answer

It never died out; it lived deep down where few people looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 died	compound:prt
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	conj
8	deep	deep	ADV	_	9 down	advmod
9	down	down	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 looked	advmod
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 people	amod
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not die out	past	It		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	live	past	it	down property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	few people		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It was a different fish that just had the same name as the old one

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	obj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 name	amod
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	as	as	ADP	_	15 one	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	amod
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a different fish					tree rules
2	have	past		a different fish				as the old one	tree rules

Option 3

It came from space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 space	case
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	It			space			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from space=Initial_Location

Option 4

Scientists brought it back to life from a fossil in a laboratory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 brought	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 brought	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 fossil	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fossil	det
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 laboratory	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 laboratory	det
12	laboratory	laboratory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	Scientists	it		a fossil		to life; in a laboratory	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to life=Destination from fossil=Initial_Location

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