Test 11 · ★ · Fossils

Which is a fossil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: fossil

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 fossil	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fossil	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fossil	det
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fossil	punct

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

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

An ammonite shell turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shell	det
2	ammonite	ammonite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shell	compound
3	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shell	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 stone	case
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle		a ammonite shell not said here		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 2

A seashell washed up on the beach last week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seashell	det
2	seashell	seashell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seashell	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 washed	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washed	obl
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash up	participle		a seashell not said here		the beach	week		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A plastic dinosaur toy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toy	det
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 toy	amod
3	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toy	compound
4	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A chicken bone from lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bone	det
2	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	compound
3	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 lunch	case
5	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bone	nmod

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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