Test 8 · ★ · Fossils

Why was Mary Anning's work often not credited in her time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: work, Mary · What happens: be, not credit, work · To what, where: work

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 work	nmod:poss
4	Anning	Anning	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	flat
5	's	's	PART	_	3 Mary	case
6	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	often	often	ADV	_	9 credited	advmod
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 credited	advmod
9	credited	credit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 work	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 time	nmod:poss
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 credited	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mary's work			why property	tree rules
2	not credit	participle		Mary's work not said here	time	often property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	work		Mary				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

She never found anything at all, she only sold seashells to visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 found	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 anything	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sold	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sold	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 sold	advmod
10	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
11	seashells	seashell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 visitors	case
13	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	past	She	anything		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Asset
2	sell	past	she	seashells	visitors				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent seashell=Theme to visitor=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She only found fake fossils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 found	advmod
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fossils	amod
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	She	fake fossils					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She was a poor working-class woman, and men wrote up her finds

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 woman	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
5	working	working	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 class	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 working	punct
7	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	compound
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wrote	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wrote	cc
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wrote	nsubj
12	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woman	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 wrote	compound:prt
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 finds	nmod:poss
15	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 wrote	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	She	a poor class woman	tree rules
2	write up	past	men		tree rules
3	find	present	men not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She hid all her fossils

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fossils	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fossils	nmod:poss
5	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	She	her fossils					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Patient

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