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Exam question 3 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

It is asserted in certain animated productions that early humans coexisted with dinosaurs. Select the response consistent with the established facts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: certain animated productions, you · What happens: assert, coexist, select, establish · To what, where: It, certain animated productions, response

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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: It is asserted in certain animated productions that early humans coexisted with dinosaurs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asserted	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 asserted	aux:pass
3	asserted	assert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 productions	case
5	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 productions	amod
6	animated	animated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 productions	amod
7	productions	production	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 asserted	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 coexisted	nsubj
9	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 humans	amod
10	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coexisted	nsubj
11	coexisted	coexist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 productions	acl:relcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 dinosaurs	case
13	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 coexisted	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asserted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	assert	present · passive		It		certain animated productions			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	coexist	participle	certain animated productions					with dinosaurs	vn exist-47.1 «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: Select the response consistent with the established facts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	amod
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle							vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The assertion is accurate in respect of Africa alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assertion	det
2	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accurate	cop
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 respect	case
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 respect	nmod
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 accurate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the assertion			respect of Africa		accurate, alone property	tree rules
2	respect			Africa					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The assertion is false, the dinosaurs having perished some 66 million years earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assertion	det
2	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 false	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 false	cop
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 perished	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 perished	nsubj:pass
8	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 perished	aux
9	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 false	parataxis
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 years	det
11	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 million	compound
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 earlier	obl:unmarked
14	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 perished	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the assertion					false property	tree rules
2	perish	gerund · perfect · passive		the dinosaurs				early property	tree rules

Option 3

The assertion is accurate in respect of the Ice Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assertion	det
2	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accurate	cop
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 respect	case
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Age	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Age	det
9	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Age	compound
10	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the assertion			respect of the Ice Age		accurate property	tree rules
2	respect			the Ice Age					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The assertion is accurate in respect of the smaller dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 assertion	det
2	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accurate	cop
4	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 respect	case
6	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accurate	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 dinosaurs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dinosaurs	det
9	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 dinosaurs	amod
10	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the assertion			respect of the smaller dinosaurs		accurate property	tree rules
2	respect			the smaller dinosaurs					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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