Test 4 · ★★ · The end of the dinosaurs, and birds as living dinosaurs

What would the world probably be like if the asteroid had missed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: world · What happens: miss · To what, where: asteroid

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	12 missed	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 missed	aux:pass
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 missed	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 missed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 asteroid	det
10	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 missed	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 missed	aux
12	missed	miss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 world	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	infinitive · perfect · passive	the world not said here	the asteroid				probably property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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

Exactly the same as today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 same	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 same	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 today	case
5	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 same	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Big dinosaurs might still rule and mammals might have stayed small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 dinosaurs	amod
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rule	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 rule	advmod
5	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stayed	cc
7	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stayed	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stayed	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 stayed	aux
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 rule	conj
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	might	Big dinosaurs				still		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stay	might · perfect	mammals					small property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Humans would have appeared 60 million years earlier and tamed the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appeared	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 appeared	aux
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 million	compound
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 earlier	obl:unmarked
8	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 appeared	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tamed	cc
10	tamed	tame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dinosaurs	det
12	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tamed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	would · perfect	Humans					early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tame	past	Humans not said here	the dinosaurs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Patient

Option 4

There would be no birds or any reptiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 reptiles	cc
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 reptiles	det
8	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no birds or any reptiles			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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