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Test 3 · ★★★ · Moving continents: from Pangaea to today

A cartoon shows dinosaurs watching humans build a city on Pangaea. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, dinosaurs · What happens: show, watch, build, be · To what, where: humans, city, Pangaea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Moving continents: from Pangaea to today» of the geography 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: A cartoon shows dinosaurs watching humans build a city on Pangaea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	nsubj
5	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dinosaurs	acl
6	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 watching	obj
7	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 city	det
9	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Pangaea	case
11	Pangaea	Pangaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 build	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	watch	gerund	dinosaurs not said here	humans					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent human=Theme
3	build	present	dinosaurs	a city		Pangaea			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent city=Theme on pangaea=Source

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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Dinosaurs lived only after the continents split

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 split	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 continents	det
6	continents	continent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 split	nsubj
7	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Dinosaurs						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	split	past	the continents						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Humans appeared only a few hundred thousand years ago, long after Pangaea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 appeared	nsubj
2	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 thousand	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hundred	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hundred	amod
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
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	_	2 appeared	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 long	punct
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 appeared	advmod
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 Pangaea	case
13	Pangaea	Pangaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Humans					ago, long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pangaea was too cold for dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pangaea	Pangaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cold	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinosaurs	case
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Pangaea					for dinosaurs; cold property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, humans and dinosaurs lived on Pangaea together for millions of years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 lived	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 humans	punct
3	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dinosaurs	cc
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 humans	conj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Pangaea	case
8	Pangaea	Pangaea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 lived	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 millions	case
11	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 millions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Nothing			Pangaea		for millions of years; together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pangaea=Location

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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