Exam question 4 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

Determine the approximate interval during which the dinosaurs inhabited the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dinosaurs · What happens: determine, inhabit · To what, where: approximate interval, Earth

This is exam question 4 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 interval	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interval	amod
4	interval	interval	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
5	during	during	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 inhabited	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinosaurs	det
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 inhabited	nsubj
9	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 interval	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Earth	det
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 inhabited	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the approximate interval					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interval=Topic
2	inhabit	past	the dinosaurs	the Earth			during the approximate interval		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

From approximately two thousand three hundred to six hundred and sixty years before the present

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 thousand	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 thousand	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hundred	compound
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 six	case
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sixty	cc
11	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	conj
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 present	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 present	det
15	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

From approximately two hundred and thirty to sixty-six million years before the present

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 hundred	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 hundred	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thirty	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sixty	case
8	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	nmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sixty	punct
10	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 present	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 present	det
15	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 years	nmod

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

Option 3

From approximately two hundred and thirty thousand years ago to the present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 hundred	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	4 hundred	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thirty	cc
6	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	conj
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ago	obl:unmarked
9	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 hundred	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 present	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 present	det
12	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hundred	nmod

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

Option 4

From approximately twenty-three to six million years before the present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	9 years	case
2	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	5 three	advmod
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 three	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 twenty	punct
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 million	compound
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 six	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 three	nmod
8	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 present	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 present	det
12	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 years	nmod

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

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