Test 5 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

"dinosaurs are totally extinct, none left" — Zoe. Is she quite right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: dinosaurs, none, Zoe · What happens: be, leave

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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: "dinosaurs are totally extinct, none left" — Zoe.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 extinct	punct
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 extinct	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extinct	cop
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 extinct	advmod
5	extinct	extinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 extinct	advcl
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
10	—	-	PUNCT	_	11 Zoe	punct
11	Zoe	Zoe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 extinct	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 extinct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	dinosaurs					Zoe obl; extinct, totally property	tree rules
2	leave in a quote	participle	none						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Is she quite right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 right	nsubj
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 right	advmod
4	right	right	ADV	_	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Zoe					right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

No, dinosaurs turned into fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 fish	case
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	dinosaurs					into fish result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not quite: birds are living dinosaurs; only the non-bird ones died out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 living	advmod
2	quite	quite	ADV	_	1 Not	fixed
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 living	punct
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 living	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 living	aux
6	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 living	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 ones	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ones	det
11	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 died	nsubj
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 living	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 died	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	present · progressive	birds	dinosaurs					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme dinosaur=Location
2	die out	past	the non-bird ones						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

No, T. rex still lives in deep jungles where nobody has looked properly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 rex	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	T.	T.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 rex	compound
4	rex	rex	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	nsubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 lives	advmod
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 jungles	case
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 jungles	amod
9	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lives	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 looked	advmod
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 looked	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 looked	aux
13	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 jungles	acl:relcl
14	properly	properly	ADV	_	13 looked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	T. rex			deep jungles	still		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location
2	look	present · perfect	nobody					properly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes, every dinosaur relative is gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 relative	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 relative	compound
5	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every dinosaur relative					gone property	tree rules

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