Test 10 · Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thyla…
The news says a frog thought extinct for 50 years was found in a forest. What is this called?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: news · What happens: say, think, find, call · To what, where: frog, forest, this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 281 «Extinct forever: the dodo, the passenger pigeon, the thylacine and more» 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
Sentence 1: The news says a frog thought extinct for 50 years was found in a forest.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 frog | det |
| 5 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 frog | acl |
| 7 | extinct | extinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 9 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 thought | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 says | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the news | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | participle | a frog not said here | year | extinct property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | find | past · passive | a frog | a forest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
Sentence 2: What is this called?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 called | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A new continent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 continent | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 continent | amod |
| 3 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cloned species
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 species | det |
| 2 | cloned | clone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 species | amod |
| 3 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clone | participle | tree rules |
Option 3
A missing link
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 link | det |
| 2 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 link | amod |
| 3 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A Lazarus species
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 species | det |
| 2 | Lazarus | Lazarus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 species | compound |
| 3 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/281-extinct-forever-the-dodo-the-passenger-pigeon-the-thylacine-and-more/t10/