Test 6 · Fossils: how we know about life long ago

«that shiny brown stone's just a rock, why's it in a museum» What could it be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: museum

This is test 6 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	_	9 rock	punct
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 stone	nsubj
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stone	amod
4	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stone	amod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rock	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 stone	case
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 rock	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 rock	det
9	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rock	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 museum	advmod
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 museum	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 's	nsubj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 museum	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 museum	det
16	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rock	parataxis
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 museum	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 be	obj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 be	nsubj
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 museum	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 rock	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				a museum			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

A piece of melted meteor that fell from space onto the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 meteor	case
4	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meteor	amod
5	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 meteor	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
10	onto	onto	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	melted meteor			space		onto the beach	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from space=Initial_Location onto beach=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A coprolite, fossil poo that shows what an animal ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coprolite	det
2	coprolite	coprolite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shows	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 poo	punct
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poo	compound
5	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coprolite	conj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 shows	nsubj
7	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 shows	obj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ate	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	compound
11	ate	ate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a coprolite and fossil poo						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

Option 3

A dinosaur egg that never hatched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 egg	det
2	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 egg	compound
3	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hatched	obj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hatched	advmod
6	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 egg	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hatch	past		a dinosaur egg					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Product

Option 4

A stone a dinosaur swallowed for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinosaur	compound
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dinosaur	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dinosaur	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 fun	case
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	participle		a stone dinosaur not said here				for fun	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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