Test 7 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

When the moas disappeared, why did the Haast's eagle die out too?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moas, eagle · What happens: disappear, die out

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 disappeared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moas	det
3	moas	moa	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 disappeared	nsubj
4	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 die	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 die	advmod
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 die	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Haast	det
9	Haast	Haast	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 eagle	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Haast	case
11	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 die	nsubj
12	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 disappeared	ccomp
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 die	compound:prt
14	too	too	ADV	_	12 die	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 disappeared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the moas						tree rules
2	die out	past · do-support	the Haast's eagle						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

It caught a cold

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 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	It	a cold					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It lost the big animal it hunted

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hunted	nsubj
7	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 animal	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	It	the big animal					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Eventuality
2	hunt	past	animal	the big animal not said here					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 3

People tamed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tamed	nsubj
2	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tame	past	People	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It turned into a kiwi

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 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 kiwi	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kiwi	det
5	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It			a kiwi			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into kiwi=Trajectory

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