Test 10 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

«just one reason the mammoths died, climate, done» What is the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mammoths · What happens: die, do, be · To what, where: one reason, fair view

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 reason	punct
2	just	just	ADV	_	4 reason	advmod
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 reason	nummod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mammoths	det
6	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 climate	punct
9	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reason	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 reason	parataxis
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 view	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 view	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 view	det
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 view	amod
17	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 done	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	the mammoths	one reason and climate not said here	tree rules
2	do in a quote	participle			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		the fair view	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

It was only a giant meteor

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	6 meteor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meteor	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 meteor	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meteor	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meteor	amod
6	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a giant meteor					tree rules

Option 2

It was only one big flood

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	6 flood	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flood	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 one	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 flood	nummod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flood	amod
6	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	one big flood					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Climate and people both mattered and scientists argue how much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mattered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 people	cc
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Climate	conj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 mattered	advmod
5	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 argue	cc
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 argue	nsubj
8	argue	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mattered	conj
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 argue	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	past	Climate and people					both property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	argue speech: disagree	present	scientists	much					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

People had nothing to do with it ever, because they could not hunt such huge animals

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 do	mark
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hunt	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 hunt	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hunt	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hunt	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hunt	advmod
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	conj
15	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
16	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 animals	amod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	People	nothing			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	People not said here	nothing not said here	ever	with it	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not hunt	could	People	such huge animals			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

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