Test 8 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…

Why are teeth found as fossils more often than other bones?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, find · To what, where: teeth

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 teeth	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teeth	cop
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 teeth	acl
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 fossils	case
6	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obl
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 often	advmod
8	often	often	ADV	_	6 fossils	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 bones	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bones	amod
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 often	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 teeth	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		teeth					tree rules
2	find	participle		teeth not said here				as fossils	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as fossil=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.

The options

Option 1

Animals used to have far more teeth than they had bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Animals	acl
3	to	to	PART	_	4 have	mark
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	advcl
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 teeth	amod
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	use	participle		Animals not said here	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	to-infinitive		more teeth	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
3	have	past	Animals	bones	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Teeth are very hard and last longer than other bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hard	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 last	cc
6	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	conj
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 last	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 bones	case
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bones	amod
10	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Teeth					hard property	tree rules
2	last	infinitive	Teeth not said here					than other bones; long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Teeth float to the surface

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 float	nsubj
2	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 surface	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 surface	det
5	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	Teeth			the surface			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to surface=Destination

Option 4

Teeth were buried on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 buried	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buried	aux:pass
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 purpose	case
5	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past · passive		Teeth		purpose			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on purpose=Destination

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