Test 8 · ★ · How old is it? Rock layers, rock clocks, amber and the lon…

«life always had animals, like from day one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: life · What happens: have, be · To what, where: animals · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	4 had	punct
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 right	csubj
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 day	case
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	flat
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	life	animals			day	always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, for billions of years life was only microscopic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	10 microscopic	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 billions	punct
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 billions	case
4	billions	billion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 life	nmod:poss
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 billions	nmod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 microscopic	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 microscopic	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 microscopic	advmod
10	microscopic	microscopic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	billions of years's life					microscopic property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, dinosaurs were the first life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 life	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 life	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 life	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	dinosaurs	the first life					tree rules

Option 3

No, life began only 1,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 life	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 1,000	advmod
6	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 began	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	life					ago property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, animals came first, then microbes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 microbes	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 microbes	advmod
8	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	animals	microbes				first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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