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Test 8 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

Grandpa: «mammoths all died before the pyramids, long before». What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mammoths · What happens: die, be

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Grandpa: «mammoths all died before the pyramids, long before».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 mammoths	punct
4	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 died	advmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Grandpa	conj
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 pyramids	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pyramids	det
9	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 before	punct
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 before	advmod
12	before	before	ADV	_	9 pyramids	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 before	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Grandpa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	past	mammoths				before the pyramids	all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The last mammoths lived until about 4,000 years ago, after the pyramids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mammoths	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mammoths	amod
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	until	until	ADP	_	8 years	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 4,000	advmod
7	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 years	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pyramids	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 pyramids	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pyramids	det
13	pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the last mammoths				after the pyramids; year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Mammoths never died out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 died	advmod
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 died	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die out	past	Mammoths						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, millions of years before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 millions	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 millions	nmod
6	before	before	ADV	_	3 millions	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Mammoths were alive when cars were invented and people took photos of them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 alive	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 alive	cop
3	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 invented	advmod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 invented	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 invented	aux:pass
7	invented	invent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 alive	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 took	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 invented	conj
11	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 took	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 photos	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mammoths					alive property	tree rules
2	invent	past · passive		cars					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	take	past	people	photos of cars					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Theme

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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