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Test 1 · ★ · Fossils

Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually. Right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, dead animal · What happens: reckon, turn · To what, where: fossil

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 57 «Fossils» 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: Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 animal	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	ccomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 fossil	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fossil	det
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turns	obl
10	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	6 turns	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ben						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	turn	present	every dead animal			a fossil		eventually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fossil=Trajectory

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: Right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Yes, every one does after about 100 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	after	after	ADP	_	9 years	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 100	advmod
8	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	every one				year		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No, only animals that died in caves or under the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 animals	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 animals	advmod
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 animals	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 caves	case
8	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 died	obl
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 under	cc
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	animals					under the sea; in caves	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cave=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, only a tiny fraction ever become fossils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 become	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 become	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 fraction	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fraction	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fraction	amod
6	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 become	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 become	advmod
8	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	a tiny fraction	fossils			ever		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, but only the big ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ones	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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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