Test 8 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life
A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years. About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: teacher, dinosaurs · What happens: stretch, be, die · To what, where: km rope, part
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: A teacher stretches a 4.5 km rope, 1 metre for every million years.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretches | nsubj |
| 3 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 km | nummod |
| 6 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rope | compound |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretches | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 metre | punct |
| 9 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 metre | nummod |
| 10 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rope | appos |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 million | det |
| 13 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 metre | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present | a teacher | a km rope | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rope=Patient |
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: About how long is the part since the dinosaurs died?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 part | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 part | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 part | det |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 died | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dinosaurs | det |
| 9 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 died | nsubj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 part | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the part | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | past | the dinosaurs | the part not said here | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 2 km of rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 km | nummod |
| 3 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rope | case |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 km | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 66 centimetres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 66 | advmod |
| 2 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 centimetres | nummod |
| 3 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 66 metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 66 | advmod |
| 2 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 4 km, almost all of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 6 all | advmod |
| 2 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 km | nummod |
| 3 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 About | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 About | punct |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 all | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 all | 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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