Test 7 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig…

«poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: poo, fossil · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: fossil

This is test 7 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	_	7 fossil	punct
2	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fossil	nsubj
3	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fossil	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fossil	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fossil	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fossil	det
7	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 right	nsubj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 fossil	discourse
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 fossil	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	not is a in a quote	can	poo	a fossil					tree rules
2	is	present	a fossil					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 · ✓ the right answer

It can: fossil poo is a trace fossil and shows what animals ate

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	9 fossil	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fossil	aux
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fossil	punct
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poo	compound
5	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fossil	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fossil	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fossil	det
8	trace	trace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fossil	compound
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shows	cc
11	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fossil	conj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 ate	obj
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ate	nsubj
14	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	can	It	a trace fossil	tree rules
2	show	present			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat	past	animals		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

Option 2

Only bird poo can be a fossil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 poo	advmod
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poo	compound
3	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fossil	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fossil	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 fossil	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fossil	det
7	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	bird poo	a fossil					tree rules

Option 3

Fossil poo is just a joke in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poo	compound
2	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joke	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 joke	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 films	case
8	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 joke	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Fossil poo	a joke		films			tree rules

Option 4

Right, only hard bones and shells can ever be fossils, never poo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	11 fossils	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 bones	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bones	amod
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fossils	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shells	cc
7	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	conj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fossils	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 fossils	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 fossils	cop
11	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 poo	punct
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 poo	advmod
14	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fossils	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can	hard bones and shells	fossils and poo			ever		tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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