Test 2 · ★★ · The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs

In a cartoon, the asteroid lands and every dinosaur on Earth burns in one second. What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: asteroid, dinosaur · What happens: land, burn, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 76 «The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, the asteroid lands and every dinosaur on Earth burns in one second.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lands	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 asteroid	det
6	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lands	nsubj
7	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 burns	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 dinosaur	det
10	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burns	nsubj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dinosaur	nmod
13	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lands	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 second	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 second	nummod
16	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 burns	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present	the asteroid			a cartoon			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	burn	present	every dinosaur on Earth				second		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What is closer to the truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 truth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						to the truth; close property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The dinosaurs all drowned in the flood it made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinosaurs	det
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drowned	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 drowned	advmod
4	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 flood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flood	det
7	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drowned	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flood	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	the dinosaurs			the flood		all property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	flood	the flood not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material flood=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every single dinosaur on the planet really did die within one second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 dinosaur	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dinosaur	amod
3	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 planet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 planet	det
6	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dinosaur	nmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 die	advmod
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 second	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 second	nummod
12	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past · do-support	every single dinosaur on the planet				second		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Most died in the cold, dark years after, when plants stopped growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	8 years	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 years	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cold	punct
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 years	amod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 died	obl
9	after	after	ADV	_	8 years	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stopped	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stopped	advmod
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stopped	nsubj
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	die	past	Most	year	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	stop	past	plants		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grow	gerund	plants not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Only the dinosaurs in Mexico died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 dinosaurs	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinosaurs	det
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Mexico	case
5	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dinosaurs	nmod
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the dinosaurs in Mexico						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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