Test 10 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig…

«Lucy's just a monkey, right» What is right?

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

This is test 10 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» 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	_	6 monkey	punct
2	Lucy	Lucy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Lucy	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 monkey	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	12 right	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 right	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Lucy's monkey					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, she was a chimp that lived in a zoo in Africa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 chimp	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chimp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chimp	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chimp	det
6	chimp	chimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chimp	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 zoo	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 zoo	det
11	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Africa	case
13	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a chimp					tree rules
2	live	past	a chimp			a zoo		in Africa	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in zoo=Location

Option 2

She was a dinosaur named after a song

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	4 dinosaur	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dinosaur	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinosaur	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dinosaur	acl
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 song	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 song	det
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 named	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a dinosaur					tree rules
2	name	participle		a dinosaur not said here			after a song		vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, she was an early human relative who walked upright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 relative	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 relative	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 relative	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 relative	det
6	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 relative	amod
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 relative	amod
8	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 walked	nsubj
10	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 relative	acl:relcl
11	upright	upright	ADV	_	10 walked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	she	a early human relative					tree rules
2	walk	past	a early human relative					upright property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She was a modern woman found in 1974

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	5 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 woman	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1974	case
8	1974	1974	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a modern woman					tree rules
2	find	participle		a modern woman not said here		1974			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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