Test 11 · ★★ · The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and froz…
Where on Earth does life survive that gives scientists hope for life in space?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, scientists · What happens: do, survive, give, hope · To what, where: life, Earth, space
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 297 «The future of life: de-extinction, climate, coral and frozen zoos» 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 does | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Earth | case |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 survive | advcl |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 6 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gives | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 gives | nsubj |
| 8 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gives | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hope | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 space | case |
| 14 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hope | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 gives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | life | Earth | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | survive | infinitive | that not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hope | present | scientists | space | for life | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Boiling vents in the deep sea and frozen lakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | vents | vent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Boiling | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sea | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Boiling | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lakes | cc |
| 8 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lakes | amod |
| 9 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sea | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | vents | in the deep sea and frozen lakes | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent vent=Patient in sea=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Only inside people's homes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 homes | advmod |
| 2 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 5 homes | case |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 homes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 people | case |
| 5 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nowhere very hot or very cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 hot | advmod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 hot | advmod |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 cold | cc |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hot | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only warm, sunny meadows full of flowers and bees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 meadows | advmod |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meadows | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 warm | punct |
| 4 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meadows | amod |
| 5 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meadows | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bees | cc |
| 10 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flowers | conj |
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.
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