Test 5 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conser…
In Ice Age a family of silly dodos fights over three melons. Why could real dodos not escape the people who came to Mauritius?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: real dodos, people · What happens: not escape, come · To what, where: people, Mauritius
This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 300 «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and food» 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: In Ice Age a family of silly dodos fights over three melons.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 Age | case |
| 2 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Age | compound |
| 3 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fights | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fights | compound |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 dodos | case |
| 7 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dodos | amod |
| 8 | dodos | dodo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 family | nmod |
| 9 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 melons | case |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 melons | nummod |
| 12 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fights | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fights | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Why could real dodos not escape the people who came to Mauritius?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 escape | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 escape | aux |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dodos | amod |
| 4 | dodos | dodo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escape | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 escape | advmod |
| 6 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 escape | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Mauritius | case |
| 12 | Mauritius | Mauritius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 escape | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not escape | could | real dodos | the people | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the people | Mauritius | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mauritius=Initial_Location |
The options
Option 1
They were already gone 66 million years before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 million | compound |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · passive | They | year | before property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
They were too fast to be caught
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fast | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fast | cop |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 caught | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 caught | aux:pass |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fast | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | to-infinitive · passive | They not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They could not fly and had no fear of people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fly | advmod |
| 4 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 had | cc |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fly | conj |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 fear | det |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fear | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fly | could | They | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | They not said here | no fear of people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fear | people | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
They lived only at the top of mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 top | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | They | the top of mountains | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location |
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