Test 4 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

Why could no animals like us live on Earth 3 billion years ago?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: live · To what, where: Earth

This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 live	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 live	aux
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 animals	nmod
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
10	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 billion	compound
11	billion	billion	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ago	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 live	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	could	no animals like us			Earth		ago property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

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

It was too dark, because there was no Sun yet

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	4 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 dark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It				yet	dark property	tree rules
2	be	past	no Sun			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The sea was made of lava

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 lava	case
6	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the sea				of lava	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

There was no water on Earth at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no water			Earth; there		at all	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

There was almost no oxygen in the air yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 oxygen	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 oxygen	det
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oxygen	nmod
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no oxygen in the air			there	yet		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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