Test 12 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life
In a game, the Jurassic comes after humans built cities. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jurassic, humans · What happens: come, build, be · To what, where: game, cities
This is test 12 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: In a game, the Jurassic comes after humans built cities.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 game | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 game | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Jurassic | det |
| 6 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 comes | nsubj |
| 7 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 built | mark |
| 9 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | nsubj |
| 10 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 comes | advcl |
| 11 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 built | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the Jurassic | a game | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Location | ||||
| 2 | build | past | humans | cities | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Product |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The Jurassic is a future period that starts after the last humans have gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jurassic | det |
| 2 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 period | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 period | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 period | det |
| 5 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 period | amod |
| 6 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 starts | nsubj |
| 8 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 period | acl:relcl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 gone | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 humans | det |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 humans | amod |
| 12 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gone | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gone | aux |
| 14 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 starts | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Jurassic | a future period | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | start | present | a future period | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | present · perfect | the last humans | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The Jurassic was 2,000 years ago
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jurassic | det |
| 2 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 years | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 years | cop |
| 4 | 2,000 | 2000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 years | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Jurassic | 2,000 years | ago property | tree rules |
Option 3
The Jurassic is the period we live in now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jurassic | det |
| 2 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 period | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 period | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 period | det |
| 5 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 period | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 now | case |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 live | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Jurassic | the period | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | we | the period not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme period=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Jurassic was about 200-145 million years ago, long before humans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Jurassic | det |
| 2 | Jurassic | Jurassic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ago | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ago | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 million | advmod |
| 5 | 200-145 | 200-145 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 million | compound |
| 6 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | conj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 humans | case |
| 12 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Jurassic | before humans; year | ago property | tree rules |
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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