Test 11 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

Which three things together hit island giants after people arrived?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three things, people · What happens: hit, arrive · To what, where: island giants

This is test 11 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hit	obj
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 things	nummod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	nsubj
4	together	together	ADV	_	5 hit	advmod
5	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 giants	compound
7	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obj
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 arrived	mark
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 arrived	nsubj
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	three things	island giants				together property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent which=Patient giant=Result
2	arrive	past	people						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Hunting, new animals like rats and dogs, and cut forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 animals	amod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunting	conj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 rats	case
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 animals	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dogs	cc
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rats	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forests	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forests	cc
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 forests	amod
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Snow, earthquakes and floods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 earthquakes	punct
3	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snow	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 floods	cc
5	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snow	conj

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

Option 3

Too much fruit, too much rain and too much sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rain	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rain	amod
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fruit	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sun	cc
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sun	amod
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fruit	conj

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

Option 4

Volcanoes, meteors and comets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 meteors	punct
3	meteors	meteor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Volcanoes	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 comets	cc
5	comets	comet	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Volcanoes	conj

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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