Test 2 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

If Earth's 4.54 billion years were one day, which came first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: billion years · What happens: be, come · To what, where: one day

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 day	mark
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 years	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	4.54	4.54	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 billion	compound
5	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 day	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 day	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 day	nummod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 came	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	Earth's billion years	one day					tree rules
2	come	past						first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Plants on land, just after midnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 land	case
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plants	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 midnight	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 midnight	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 midnight	case
7	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plants	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Dinosaurs, at breakfast time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 time	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dinosaurs	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Humans, at noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 noon	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 noon	case
4	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Humans	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Microbes, early in the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Microbes	punct
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Microbes	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 early	obl

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.

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