Test 1 · Fossils: how we know about life long ago

«saw in a film you can clone dinos from a mosquito in amber, so when's the zoo opening» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, zoo · What happens: see, clone, open, be · To what, where: film, dinos · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 74 «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 film	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 film	det
5	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 clone	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 clone	aux
8	clone	clone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 film	acl:relcl
9	dinos	dino	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 clone	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 mosquito	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mosquito	det
12	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clone	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 amber	case
14	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mosquito	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 opening	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	21 opening	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 opening	advmod
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 opening	aux
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 zoo	det
20	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 opening	nsubj
21	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 saw	ccomp
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 opening	punct
23	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 right	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 right	cop
25	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 opening	parataxis
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past			a film		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	clone in a quote	can	you	dinos		from a mosquito in amber	tree rules
3	open in a quote	present · progressive	the zoo				tree rules
4	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

Yes, but only the small dinosaurs can be cloned, not the giants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	10 cloned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cloned	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 cloned	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 dinosaurs	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinosaurs	amod
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cloned	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cloned	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cloned	aux:pass
10	cloned	clone	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 giants	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 giants	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giants	det
14	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cloned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clone	can · passive		the small dinosaurs				the giants obl	tree rules

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

Never, DNA breaks down far too fast to last 66 million years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 breaks	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Never	punct
3	DNA	DNA	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breaks	nsubj
4	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 breaks	compound:prt
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 fast	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 breaks	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 last	mark
10	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fast	xcomp
11	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 million	compound
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 last	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not break down	present	DNA					fast property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	last	to-infinitive	DNA not said here				year		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, any amber older than a year has dinosaur blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 older	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 amber	det
4	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 older	nsubj
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 has	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 older	advcl
10	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blood	compound
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a year	dinosaur blood					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 4

Soon, scientists already cloned one in 2010

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cloned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soon	punct
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cloned	nsubj
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 cloned	advmod
5	cloned	clone	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cloned	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2010	case
8	2010	2010	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clone	past	scientists	one		2010		soon property	tree rules

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