Test 9 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

Why does every lump of coal remind us of Arthropleura?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, remind · To what, where: lump, us

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 remind	advcl
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lump	det
4	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 coal	case
6	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lump	nmod
7	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 remind	iobj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Arthropleura	case
10	Arthropleura	Arthropleura	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remind	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 remind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		every lump of coal					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Eventuality
2	remind speech: other	present			us			of Arthropleura	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent we=Recipient of arthropleura=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

Coal is made of squashed millipedes like Arthropleura

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 millipedes	case
5	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 millipedes	amod
6	millipedes	millipede	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 Arthropleura	case
8	Arthropleura	Arthropleura	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 millipedes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Coal				of squashed millipedes like Arthropleura	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	squash	participle							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Arthropleura ate coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Arthropleura	Arthropleura	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Arthropleura	coal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coal=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Coal comes from the ancient forests where it lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 forests	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forests	det
5	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forests	amod
6	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 comes	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 lived	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forests	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Coal			the ancient forests			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location
2	live	past	Coal						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Coal is its fossil dung

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dung	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dung	cop
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dung	nmod:poss
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dung	compound
5	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Coal	Coal's fossil dung					tree rules

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