Test 7 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

«a hut made of bones?? sounds like a horror film» Why did it make sense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ??, film · What happens: make, sound · To what, where: hut, sense

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	3 hut	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hut	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bones	case
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
7	??	??	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sounds	nsubj
8	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hut	acl:relcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 film	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 film	det
11	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 film	compound
12	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sounds	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 film	punct
14	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 make	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sounds	advcl
18	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	participle		a hut not said here	of bones	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	sound in a quote	present	??		like a horror film	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	make	past · do-support	film	sense		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sense=Product

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Trees were scarce on the steppe and bones were strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scarce	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scarce	cop
3	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 steppe	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steppe	det
6	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scarce	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strong	cc
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 strong	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 scarce	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Trees			the steppe		scarce property	tree rules
2	is	past	bones					strong property	tree rules

Option 2

Bones were softer than wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 softer	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 softer	cop
3	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 wood	case
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 softer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bones					than wood; soft property	tree rules

Option 3

Bones were easy to buy in shops in the nearest big town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 easy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 buy	mark
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 shops	case
7	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 buy	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 town	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
10	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 town	amod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 town	amod
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bones					easy property	tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	Bones not said here			shops		in the nearest big town	vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

People wanted to scare visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scare	mark
4	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	People						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	scare not said to happen	to-infinitive	People not said here	visitors					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus visitor=Experiencer

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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