Test 9 · ★ · Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

Why are you more likely to find a fossil fish in shale than in granite?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, find · To what, where: fossil fish, shale

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 49 «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 likely	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 likely	nsubj
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 shale	case
12	shale	shale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	nmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 granite	case
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 granite	case
15	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					likely property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	a fossil fish		shale		than granite	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Shale formed from mud that buried living things; granite from melted rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shale	shale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Shale	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 mud	case
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 formed	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 buried	nsubj
6	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mud	acl:relcl
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 buried	xcomp
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 living	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 granite	punct
10	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shale	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 rock	case
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 rock	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 granite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	form	participle		Shale and granite from melted rock not said here	mud	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bury	past	mud			tree rules
3	live	gerund	mud not said here	things		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location
4	melt	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Fish only lived on top of granite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 top	case
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 granite	case
7	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Fish			top of granite			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location

Option 3

Shale is older than every other rock on Earth, so it has the most fossils

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shale	shale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 older	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 older	cop
3	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 rock	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 rock	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rock	amod
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 older	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rock	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 has	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 older	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fossils	det
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 fossils	amod
16	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Shale					than every other rock on Earth; old property	tree rules
2	have	present	Shale	the most fossils					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Patient

Option 4

Granite fossils are too small to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fossils	compound
2	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 small	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Granite fossils					small property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Granite fossils not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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