Test 10 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

Why was the biggest mass extinction worse than the one that ended the dinosaurs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: be, end · To what, where: dinosaurs

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 58 «Deep time and the story of life» 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=Int	7 worse	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worse	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 extinction	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 extinction	amod
5	mass	mass	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 extinction	amod
6	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worse	obl:unmarked
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worse	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ended	nsubj
12	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dinosaurs	det
14	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ended	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 worse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						than the one; the biggest mass extinction obl:unmarked; bad property	tree rules
2	end	past	the one	the dinosaurs					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinosaur=Eventuality

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

It was caused by a bigger asteroid that hit the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caused	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 asteroid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 asteroid	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 asteroid	amod
7	asteroid	asteroid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hit	nsubj
9	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 asteroid	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Moon	det
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · passive	a bigger asteroid	It					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	hit	past	a bigger asteroid	the Moon					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Co-Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It wiped out about 90% of sea species

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wiped	nsubj
2	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 wiped	compound:prt
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 90	advmod
5	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 %	nummod
6	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	2 wiped	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 species	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 species	compound
9	species	species	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 %	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past	It						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent %=Source

Option 3

It happened only last century

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 century	advmod
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 century	amod
5	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				century		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It killed only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 plants	advmod
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	It	plants					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Theme

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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