Test 10 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

Why might people arriving in Australia have mattered to Diprotodon?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: arrive, matter · To what, where: Australia, Diprotodon

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mattered	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 mattered	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 mattered	nsubj
4	arriving	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 people	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 arriving	obl
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 mattered	aux
8	mattered	matter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Diprotodon	case
10	Diprotodon	Diprotodon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mattered	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mattered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	people not said here			Australia			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	matter	might · perfect	people		Diprotodon				vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to diprotodon=Experiencer

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

Some scientists think hunting helped it die out, which is argued

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 scientists	det
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	nsubj
5	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helped	obj
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 die	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 argued	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 argued	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 argued	aux:pass
12	argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 think	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	some scientists		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	help	past	hunting	it	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	die out	infinitive			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	argue speech: disagree	present · passive			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

People kept them all as pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	6 pets	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 pets	case
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obl

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

Option 3

People taught them to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 taught	nsubj
2	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 taught	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 swim	mark
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 taught	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past	People		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	swim	to-infinitive	People not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It had died out millions of years before people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 died	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	aux
3	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 died	compound:prt
5	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 millions	nmod
8	before	before	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past · perfect	It	millions of years			before people		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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