Test 9 · ★★★ · Deep time and the story of life
my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit". What do rocks show?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, earth, rocks · What happens: go, be, show
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: my mate goes "earth's like a few thousand years old innit".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 innit | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 innit | cop |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 innit | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 innit | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thousand | amod |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 innit | amod |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | discourse |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | my mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | earth | like a old innit | 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.
Sentence 2: What do rocks show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 show | obj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 show | nsubj |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | rocks | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 4,500 years, from old books
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 4,500 | advmod |
| 2 | 4,500 | 4,500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 books | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 books | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 books | amod |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 years | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
About 45 million years, from fossils of the first humans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 million | advmod |
| 2 | 45 | 45 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 million | compound |
| 3 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fossils | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 fossils | case |
| 7 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 years | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 humans | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 humans | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 humans | amod |
| 11 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fossils | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No one can know anything about it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 anything | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | can | no one | anything | about it | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
About 4.54 billion years, from radioactive dating
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 billion | advmod |
| 2 | 4.54 | 4.54 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 billion | compound |
| 3 | billion | billion | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dating | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 dating | case |
| 7 | radioactive | radioactive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dating | amod |
| 8 | dating | dating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 years | conj |
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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