Test 2 · ★ · Fossils
A row of three-toed prints in old rock shows an animal walking. What kind of fossil is it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: row · What happens: show, be · To what, where: animal walking, kind
This is test 2 · ★ 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: A row of three-toed prints in old rock shows an animal walking.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 row | det |
| 2 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 prints | case |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 toed | nummod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 three | punct |
| 6 | toed | toed | ADJ | _ | 7 prints | amod |
| 7 | prints | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 row | nmod | |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rock | amod |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prints | nmod |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 walking | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 walking | compound |
| 14 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a row of toed prints in old rock | a animal walking | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent walking=Recipient |
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 kind of fossil is it?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fossil | case |
| 4 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kind | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | row | what kind | of fossil | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
An amber fossil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fossil | det |
| 2 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fossil | compound |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A frozen fossil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fossil | det |
| 2 | frozen | frozen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fossil | amod |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A body fossil of bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fossil | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fossil | compound |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 bones | case |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fossil | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A trace fossil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fossil | det |
| 2 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fossil | compound |
| 3 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/57-fossils/t2/