Test 6 · ★ · How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the lon…

«so dinos and cavemen fought, like in the Flintstones» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dinos · What happens: fight, be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 276 «How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the long story of life» 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 fought	punct
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 fought	advmod
3	dinos	dino	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fought	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cavemen	cc
5	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dinos	conj
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Flintstones	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 Flintstones	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 Flintstones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Flintstones	det
11	Flintstones	Flintstone	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 fought	obl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 fought	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fought	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight in a quote	past	dinos and cavemen					like the Flintstones	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						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

Yes, they lived side by side, and cavemen hunted them with spears and clubs

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 side	case
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 side	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunted	cc
10	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunted	nsubj
11	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hunted	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 spears	case
14	spears	spear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hunted	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clubs	cc
16	clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spears	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they	side				by side	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme side=Location
2	hunt	past	cavemen	them = they				with spears and clubs	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Only in Africa did they meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 meet	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Africa	case
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Only	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meet	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meet	nsubj
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past · do-support	they						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 million	advmod
7	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 million	compound
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	13 humans	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 humans	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 humans	amod
13	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	dinosaurs				before the first humans; year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, cavemen kept them as pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 pets	case
7	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	cavemen	them = they				as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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