Test 7 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life

Which order is right, oldest first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: order · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 order	det
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 right	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 right	cop
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 oldest	punct
6	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 right	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 oldest	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which order					oldest obl; right property	tree rules

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, first microbes, oxygen, Cambrian explosion

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	_	6 microbes	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 microbes	advmod
6	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Plants	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 oxygen	punct
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plants	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 explosion	punct
10	Cambrian	Cambrian	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 explosion	compound
11	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Plants	conj

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

Option 2

Oxygen, plants on land, first microbes, Cambrian explosion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plants	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oxygen	punct
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 land	case
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plants	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 microbes	punct
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 microbes	advmod
8	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plants	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 explosion	punct
10	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 explosion	amod
11	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plants	conj

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

Option 3

Cambrian explosion, first microbes, plants on land, oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 explosion	amod
2	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 microbes	punct
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 microbes	advmod
5	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explosion	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plants	punct
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 explosion	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 land	case
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 oxygen	punct
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 explosion	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

First microbes, oxygen in the air, Cambrian explosion, plants on land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	First	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 microbes	amod
2	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oxygen	punct
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 microbes	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oxygen	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 explosion	punct
9	Cambrian	cambrian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 explosion	amod
10	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 microbes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plants	punct
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 explosion	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 land	case
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plants	nmod

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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