Test 10 · ★ · Evolution simply: why living things change over many gener…

«Darwin just made it up one day, didn't he» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Darwin · What happens: make up, do, be · To what, where: it

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 73 «Evolution simply: why living things change over many generations» 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	_	4 made	punct
2	Darwin	Darwin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 he	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	make up in a quote	past	Darwin	it	day		vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
2	do in a quote	past	Darwin				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present				right property	tree rules

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

Yes, he dreamt the whole idea on the Beagle one stormy night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 dreamt	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamt	nsubj
4	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 idea	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 idea	amod
7	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreamt	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Beagle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Beagle	det
10	Beagle	Beagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dreamt	obl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 Beagle	flat
12	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dreamt	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dreamt	past	he	the whole idea		the Beagle	night		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He gathered evidence for over 20 years before publishing in 1859

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gathered	nsubj
2	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gathered	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 years	case
5	over	over	ADV	_	6 20	advmod
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gathered	obl
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 publishing	mark
9	publishing	publish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 gathered	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 1859	case
11	1859	1859	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 publishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	He	evidence			year		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme
2	publish	gerund	He not said here			1859			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He made it up in 1950

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 made	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 1950	case
6	1950	1950	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past	He	it		1950			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot

Option 4

He copied it from Wallace's book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copied	nsubj
2	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copied	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 book	case
5	Wallace	Wallace	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 book	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Wallace	case
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 copied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	He	it		Wallace's book			vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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