Test 1 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas
"oil comes from dead dinosaurs" — it says so on a cartoon dinosaur at a petrol station. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: oil · What happens: come, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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: "oil comes from dead dinosaurs" — it says so on a cartoon dinosaur at a petrol station.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 2 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 dinosaurs | case |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dinosaurs | amod |
| 6 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 comes | obl |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 says | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 dinosaur | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dinosaur | det |
| 14 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dinosaur | compound |
| 15 | dinosaur | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 station | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 station | det |
| 18 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 station | compound |
| 19 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dinosaur | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present | oil | from dead dinosaurs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from dinosaur=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | oil | on a cartoon dinosaur at a petrol station | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Oil comes from tree sap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sap | case |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sap | compound |
| 5 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Oil | tree sap | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sap=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Oil comes mostly from tiny sea plankton, not dinosaurs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 comes | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 plankton | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plankton | amod |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plankton | compound |
| 7 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dinosaurs | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 dinosaurs | advmod |
| 10 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 plankton | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Oil | tiny sea plankton and dinosaurs | mostly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from plankton=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Oil comes from volcanoes only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 volcanoes | case |
| 4 | volcanoes | volcano | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 2 comes | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Oil | volcanoes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from volcano=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Yes, oil is melted dinosaurs, and that's exactly why it is black
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 melted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 melted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 melted | aux:pass |
| 5 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 melted | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 why | cc |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 why | nsubj |
| 10 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | cop |
| 11 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 12 why | advmod |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 melted | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 black | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 black | cop |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 why | advcl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | present · passive | oil | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that | exactly, why property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | oil | black property | tree rules |
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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