Test 9 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…
«found a cave full of chewed old bones and old poo, whose?» What is the best guess for an Ice Age cave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: best guess · What happens: find, chew, be · To what, where: cave
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: «found a cave full of chewed old bones and old poo, whose?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cave | det |
| 4 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 found | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 bones | case |
| 7 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bones | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bones | amod |
| 9 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 full | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 poo | cc |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 poo | amod |
| 12 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bones | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 whose | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 bones | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | a cave | full property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Topic | ||||
| 2 | chew in a quote | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 the best guess for an Ice Age cave?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 guess | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 guess | amod |
| 5 | guess | guess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 8 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Age | compound |
| 9 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cave | compound |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 guess | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best guess for a Age cave | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A hyena den
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 den | det |
| 2 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 den | compound |
| 3 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A mammoth nursery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nursery | det |
| 2 | mammoth | mammoth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nursery | amod |
| 3 | nursery | nursery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A lion's painting studio
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studio | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lion | case |
| 4 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studio | compound |
| 5 | studio | studio | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A cave bear's kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 2 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | compound |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kitchen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 bear | case |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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