Test 7 · ★ · Fossils
People in ancient times found huge bones with beaks in the desert. What legend may this have led to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: People · What happens: find, lead · To what, where: huge bones, legend
This is test 7 · ★ 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: People in ancient times found huge bones with beaks in the desert.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 times | case |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 times | amod |
| 4 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 People | nmod |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bones | amod |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 beaks | case |
| 9 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 desert | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 desert | det |
| 12 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beaks | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | People in ancient times | huge bones | with beaks in the desert | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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.
Sentence 2: What legend may this have led to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 led | obj |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 led | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 led | aux |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 led | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | may · perfect · passive | legend | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Griffins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Griffins | griffin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Unicorns made of glass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unicorns | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Unicorns | acl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 glass | case |
| 4 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | Unicorns not said here | of glass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3
Mermaids
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Talking trees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 trees | amod |
| 2 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | gerund | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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